Was it a cnn reporter that said that? (If so, he/she should be fired). Or was it a talking head opinion generator?
Everything I saw about it over the course of the weekend (on all 3 news channels) was positive, highlighting the gains, the training, and the continuing support. On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 2:24 PM, Bruce Sorge <[email protected]> wrote: > > So unlike my previous post, I am not playing devils advocate, this is > base on a personal observation. > > Yesterday I was watching CNN, and one of the stories was about what is > happening tomorrow, which is the US forces pulling back from the Iraqi > cities back into our FOBS, and letting the Iraqi Security Forces (ISF) > take control of security in their cities. One sentence that the reporter > said was "We are abandoning the Iraqi's". What they did not report > though was the full story. So today on Fox News, they actually did > report the whole story. Never once did the Fox reporter say we were > abandoning the Iraqi's, which we are not doing bye the way. What they > said was exactly what we are doing. We are pulling out of the Iraqi > cities, per the security agreement that was signed by the US AND the > Iraqi's, which clearly states we are to be out of the cities by > tomorrow. They also reported that while we are letting the ISF take over > security, we are here to provide a training and support role, which we > have been doing for months now. And although we are not going to be > actively patrolling inside the cities, we are going to take care of > security in the cities belt lines, or outer cordon, basically keeping > the insurgents out of the city. And most importantly, if the ISF needs > our help on anything, they call us and we put together the required > resources. They can also ask for helicopter and UAV support as well. > > So why does one agency report half the story, and the other reports the > whole story. Weird. > > And I am not giving away national secrets. All of what I have said was > broadcast on national TV as well as in the papers. > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let them know on the House of Fusion mailing lists Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:299206 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
