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To: Lane3 who wrote (112231)	5/2/2005 9:15:24 AM
From: unclewest	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793916

One more time. Yes, one more time. In a war zone, a military road checkpoint is well lit, well signed and heavily armed. Iraq is no different and everyone in country knows that because they are all briefed on how to approach a checkpoint and how to discern bad guy checkpoints from good guy checkpoints. That vehicle did something wrong to bring attention to itself. The troops say it did not slow down. The troops did what they were trained to do. They stopped the vehicle prior to it becoming a massive threat to personnel manning the checkpoint. They would have shot up an American vehicle in similar circumstances. Either the Italians failed to train their own people properly and/or the vehicle occupants failed to heed the training and the checkpoint signage. The LA Times chose to report part of the story...deliberately leaving out parts that exonerate the troops. The beef (as LB has repeatedly explained) is the selective nature of the reporting. It was not an accidental overlook. The LAT has been doing such things forever. They use freedom of the press for subversive purposes imo. Some of us don't want to let them get away with it. You keep trying to deflect their responsibility to report the whole story. I am not buying it. We would not rail against this story in the publication of the communist worker's party of America because we accept their goal is the overthrow of our government. The LAT has not yet made their position on that clear...except when their writing is clearly intended to put the worst possible face on America and our troops. You will get some more opportunities to defend the LAT. Their style ain't about to change.