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petrophysics1
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Message 106 of 145 (421437)
09-12-2007 6:14 PM
Reply to: Message 103 by Tal
09-12-2007 10:22 AM


News Media: Snatching defeat from the jaws of victory 1 negative report at a time.
Tal,
Although I like the new sig I want you to know I agree with the old one. Actually the media is a bit worse than that quote lets on.
Here's an article from Time where the most knowledgeable on this board get there info on Iraq.
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“For Captain Shonnel Makwakwa, it was a rare assignment "outside the wire": a chance to break the monotony of life on the base and get out onto the streets of Baghdad. But it didn't take long to realize that this was no routine mission. Minutes after Makwakwa's humvee pulled out of Camp Liberty last December, bad news crackled over the radio: a supply convoy of six 18-wheel trucks was ambushed at Checkpoint 50, a freeway cloverleaf that is a notorious shooting alley for insurgents. Makwakwa, a bright, fit New Orleans native, handles medical logistics for the U.S. 10th Mountain Division--the kind of deskbound job often assigned to women G.I.s. Now she found herself wearing a first-aid kit on her belt, gripping an M-4 rifle and crawling on her stomach as enemy fire rained down. "I could hear the rounds pinging all around me," she says. "It was surreal." The scene was horrific. Flies were everywhere, and so was blood. "I'd dealt with people dying in the hospital, but it was nothing like this," she says. Makwakwa and another soldier kicked in the bullet-shattered windshield of the lead vehicle, but the driver was already dead. The driver of the second vehicle was screaming in agony from his wounds; he later died. Makwakwa and the patrol were able to save three other wounded drivers, but the memories of Checkpoint 50 are hard to erase--a constant reminder that while the military officially bars women from combat, the insurgency makes no such distinctions. "In Iraq, female soldiers are in combat," she says. "We're out there."
WOW can you imagine? Women being shot at, bullets pinging everywhere, blood all over, people dead.
What is the most important thing about this story?
It's totally made up. It never happened, well the part about being on a routine mission out of Camp Liberty is true.
How do I know this? Well the reporter for Time and the Capt. were in my son's humvee. They left Camp Liberty and delivered medical supplies to an Iraqi hospital nearby.Notice how the true humanitarian but uneventful story wasn't even mentioned. My son remembers it well because on returning he went to see his 1st Sgt to tell him this Capt. had ordered him into the back seat where he would not have been in his proper position to give instructions to his driver, gunner and dismounts if something did happen. She got her butt reamed for it.
So Tal, it's not just the negative reporting, stuff is also just made up, to fit the media's agenda.
Good luck and thanks for your service.
Martin

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