Marine Captain Secher's emails from Iraq

[Ban Hammer 13,345]

I guess serving in Iraq and being sent back in a bodyguard isn't as important as saying the right thing. Some high standards there

it's a body bag, erekose

[Carol&Marc 0]

Steve, Im talkin about the press! not the soldier. I have sympathy for the soldier! LOTS!

Look how his morale deteriorates, this I think is the goal of most news agencies! by the daily barrage they put out!

So you believe that these are the words of the soldier for which you have sympathy, but you think that the press should not report his point of view? Why?

It's the selective-ness that the press has. They report on the negitive but ignore the positive. It gives a false impression of what is going on there. Our new forman at work was a captain in the army. He just got back from 2 years in Iraq. He said that, yes the bad things you see on TV are real but all of the good things that are also going on are not reported. It gives us a warped idea of the real way things are. It drives the American people to dislike the war and they way it is run to the negative. That is the press bias. That is what they want us to think. If we really knew how things are there both positive and negitive the American people would have a different opinion of the war and the way it is run.

I'm not sure its possible to make the weekly bodycount sound 'positive'

Fish, your a excellent example of what I am talking about!

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

I guess serving in Iraq and being sent back in a bodyguard isn't as important as saying the right thing. Some high standards there

it's a body bag, erekose

Yes it is. Thanks for pointing it out.

Steve, Im talkin about the press! not the soldier. I have sympathy for the soldier! LOTS!

Look how his morale deteriorates, this I think is the goal of most news agencies! by the daily barrage they put out!

So you believe that these are the words of the soldier for which you have sympathy, but you think that the press should not report his point of view? Why?

It's the selective-ness that the press has. They report on the negitive but ignore the positive. It gives a false impression of what is going on there. Our new forman at work was a captain in the army. He just got back from 2 years in Iraq. He said that, yes the bad things you see on TV are real but all of the good things that are also going on are not reported. It gives us a warped idea of the real way things are. It drives the American people to dislike the war and they way it is run to the negative. That is the press bias. That is what they want us to think. If we really knew how things are there both positive and negitive the American people would have a different opinion of the war and the way it is run.

I'm not sure its possible to make the weekly bodycount sound 'positive'

Fish, your a excellent example of what I am talking about!

Well considering you believe what you want to believe anyway - regardless of ANY news or actual facts (unless of course - Doublespeak = fact), I could say the same about you - a 100% bona-fide, slack-jawed, slogan shouting real-deal anti-american.