Monday, December 18, 2006

Oliver North goes to Iraq and gets people killed

Just great, Oliver North goes to Iraq, where things really are only as dangerous as Washington D. C.*, and gets one of his escorts killed. You know the drill. The liberal media is why we are losing this war.

http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003523039

* You may wonder about this reference to Washington D. C. When statistics started coming out about civilian deaths in Iraq, Republicans tried to down-play them by telling the media that the homicide statistics in various U. S. cities were just as bad. Here is an example of that strategy:
http://thinkprogress.org/2006/06/13/king-dc-safer/

They used horribly bad statistical comparisons to make their point and the comparisons were quickly corrected by various legitimate organizations. Fox etc. , however, never retracted the reports and they still stick in the minds of some.

2 comments:

MR said...

Great post, thanks. Don't know if you've seen these three short videos from Iraq yet or not, but both show the US Military engaging in some very dubious actions. I have them up on my site at www.minor-ripper.blogspot.com

Andrew, Bridget, Walker, and Josie said...

Thanks, I did see the video on your site, but could not watch it. This is exactly the sort of behavior that just infuriates me. We are better than this. If I was a commander in Iraq I would go medieval on this sort of behavior by our troops. I file this under “what were they thinking?” It reminds me of our troops standing buy while the Iraqi’s looted after the overthrow of Saddam.