A Letter from the Front
I can’t tell you where I got this, but it’s from a soldier in Iraq who has some words for the world media.
As for the media problem, there seems to be a world media problem, not just an american media problem. This is what I can gather by watching the pentagon briefings on tv, talking to the Iraqis around here, and watching the american news channels. The majority of the Iraqi people are ignorant, and heavily opinioned bigots. Alot like rednecks. So they all run around living in the past (1500 years past even) thinking that the Jews are satan spawns. This is further bolstered by the fact that Al Jazeera and Al Arabia are their only news outlets. Al Jazeera and Al Arabia are the Ku Klux Klan news channels of the muslim world. Every story they run will say that Jews and Jew allies (coalition forces) are killing and raping every innocent child and woman that they can find. So naturally, this upsets the rednecks and they want to kill us. Now, the other side of this- Nearly every Iraqi has been positively affected by the overthrow of Sadaam and the installation of a provisional government. So almost everyone loves us for that. Educated Iraqis who were initially ecstatic about the overthrow, are beginning to have fears about the growing lawlessness and inability to successfully manage all of the ignorant grand dragons that show up with their armies of mindless hate-bots. They are still happy to have us, and think that we will be able to help usher lasting change in their beautiful, but war-devastated country. Overall this leads to a majority (60-70%) of Iraqis that are still pro-us with about 20% more sitting the fence still. That leaves a healthy 10% of the population from which any fork-tongued power-hungry mullah can conscript a new army of aspiring martyrs for his new found friend and master satan. In a country of 25 million, that is a scary number.
Now for the american media. They all have their b-team correspondants out here that are trying to write the next pullitzer winning story, so they can make varsity before they graduate. However, they are too scared to take their suburban outside the green zone to gather some real intelligence about the situation. So instead of going to Fallujah or An Najaf to see the coalition forces re-take the towns from Satans vessels, they would rather sit in the green zone and get fat on the KBR crab-legs, and just pepper the pentagon briefer with questions that they formed from watching none other than Al Jazeera. Gen. Kimmet has had to tell them on numerous occasions to get off their fat-asses and drive out to Fallujah for an eye-witness story on the “collateral damage” that we have been inflicting with reckless abandon. So anyway, the combination of this lazy journalism and the out right lies that get broadcasted over the airwaves that allah created, makes for a very murky picture of the truth.
Which is why groups like Spirit of America are so essential. If you haven’t kicked a few bucks their way you should definitely think about it.
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