The military says they fight for freedom of the press but at the same time the military says it wants the free press out of Iraq. The military says the press hurts the war effort.
If you had ever been to Iraq, you'd know that.. 1. What the press reports is NOT what actually happens there. Most stories you will watch on CNN about the events of the day in Iraq are quite different- some because of biased journalism, some because of what is allowed to be reported. 2. Free Press in a war zone directly leads to the deaths of many friendlies. Here I am, in _____, with this secret unit on a covert mission, creeping up on the enemy. DUH.. WHY would you even THINK of allowing that? About as stupid of a question as all the rest of your pointed rants you post.
Everyone agrees that WWII was the last just war. What is not generally recognized is that what means were used for us to win that war are the same things that the liberal left is bitching about with regards to how we are forced to fight the Iraq war. FDR put a Gag order on the liberal press. No daily body count, no protest over putting US citizens of Japanese descent in internment camps, no protest over bombing Japanese and German cities killling millions of civilians, no protest over taking no prisoners in the war in the Pacific. That was a different generation. Today if there were a draft, other than mass protests, there would be a general exodus to Canada exceeding even that of the Vietnam era. As far as the media or the Press today, it is controlled by the Left and they print only the bad news about the war for the sole purpose of hurting President Bush. The good things that our military does in Iraq is ignored by the Press. The problem is that too many people believe what they read in the newspapers or what they see and hear on television. They think that if it is in print then it must be the truth. A few bad apples rape a young girl and murder her family and for some readers the entire 150,000 Americans stationed in Iraq are rapists/murderers. The terrorists are not stupid and soon they are using what is printed in American newspapers as propaganda to further their cause.
We want the free press out because they have no business there. They all put their own spin on things and report what they think/feel rather than what actually takes place. For instance, we had an embedded reporter with us in Afghanistan and when she left us and published her story she focused on ONLY the bad things that took place. Not once did she mention the humanitarian missions we did or any other good acts. All she focused on was our attitude toward the people and things we were saying while on patrol making us look worse than the taliban themselves.
Despite what you think, the press does NOT have free reign over military operations and operational security, or over anything else classified or deemed vital to national security. Besides, the only thing the press has accomplished is to go out of their way to report anything negative they can find and nothing positive, clearly for reasons of their own. The Arab media has done precisely the same thing. I don't blame the military whatsoever for wanting the press to butt out--can you imagine how the first two world wars would have gone if the press had been allowed to get up to the same antics they have had in this war?
