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Politics : I Will Continue to Continue, to Pretend....
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To: Sully- who wrote (6301)11/18/2004 11:42:42 AM
From: Sully-   of 35834
 
The Shooting Video

By Diplomad

As could be expected the media in the Far Abroad are having a ball with the NBC video of a US Marine apparently shooting some wounded or perhaps already dead Iraqi "insurgent." The usual gang of anti-America yahoos are running the tape over and over and over: Al Jazeera, BBC, TVF, DW, CNNInternational, etc., just can't seem to run it enough.

The tape is outrageous. It should not be on the air at all -- not even the partially blacked out version that Fox and some others have run. We, however, do not blame NBC or the rest of the MSM. They are around to film, and will film whatever they can get away with. We all know that about the media; to expect them to censor themselves is to expect too much in today's "gotcha" sensationalist environment.

We at The Diplomad blame the military censors. Presumably this NBC cameraman was an authorized "embed" with US forces. Those reporters and cameramen are subject to military censorship (as BBC reminds us repeatedly.) Why did US military censors allow NBC to run the tape? It should have been seized as "evidence" in any legal proceeding or investigation that will follow the shooting incident, or simply as posing a danger to lives and future operations.

Some military PR flack should lose his job over this. Let's hope Americans don't lose their lives.

We are really hacked off over this.

Let us know if we're wrong.
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