Leave war to the warriors. I’ll watch the re-runs after it’s over.

Limerick on January 25, 2007 at 9:37 PM

Amen. The military should remove all embeds, or at least those who produce the slanted crap we’ve seen in the MSM. One warning and you’re out.

BTW, is that tie used for their TV test pattern?

This is video of some Iraqi troops that catch three insurgents with mortars. The British news agency that filmed it is horrified that the Iraqi troops beat the living crap out of them while the American troops sat back……

http://www.BBC-BS.uk/allthetime/

This is video of some Iraqi troops that catch three insurgents with mortars. The British news agency that filmed……

My personal fav moment came in the last minute of the broadcast- for those who could make it that far without losing their lunch-…the warning note from one whack job religious group to the guy who married the broad from a different whack job religious group, “Leave the neighborhood or we’ll cut out your toungues, and kill your entire family, signed by Allah, the Compassionate One”

Priceless.

it’s almost as if the Times is trying to spin the great news out of Iraq into a story of doom & gloom. Weird….

I didn’t see one beheading….

d1carter on January 25, 2007 at 9:41 PM

How anyone can call that a beating is beyond me. I didn’t see any blood, no bruises on his face, even.

The reporter obviously never had a wedgie before either. Otherwise he would have recognized that uncomfortable feeling in his stomach was actually his head up his ass.

Subsunk

And in Iraq, a country that’s had a long history of violence, I don’t really see how simply arresting the bad guys will make the kind of difference a few beatings will.

But even if you agree the beatings were wrong, why can’t you at least agree the men with the mortars were scum? Why can’t you spend more than a second mentioning the mortars?

Guys, Snow is the one who introduced the clip. He’s not the reporter.

Allahpundit on January 26, 2007 at 12:09 AM

Well…never mind, then.

Video: Iraqi Shiite soldiers put the boots to Sunni insurgents Allahpundit …while U.S. troops sit by and gawk. You’re seeing the cancer of Iraqi sectarian violence play out before your eyes, and you’re also seeing three filthbags who were caught…

This report, which sounds like it involves the same patrols in the same or very similar neighborhoods, blames the US for standing by and doing nothing.

We’re simultaneously doing too much and not enough. I guess any way you slice it, it comes up failure for the US.

Oh, my goodness; he calls that a beating? That YouTube vid of three junior high girls beating another girl was significantly more violent.

Snow needs to get out of Highgate now and then for a football game at Old Trafford. The drunk hooligans in Manchester beat their friends worse than that…

Jaibones on January 25, 2007 at 10:21 PM

WOW! What an observation. You can see more violence every day on utube or whatever cyber video store you frequent. The British are turning into French pussies. Which I understand are pretty smelly do to the not bathing thing.

That makes for some frustrating viewing. The reporters use lines like “violence that has engulfed the city” and say that killings are happening on an “unimaginable scale” when neither is the case. Violence has not engulfed the whole city. Some neighborhoods, but not the whole city. And after World War II, we can imagine a scale of killing quite a bit higher than anything that is happening in Baghdad right now. There is more loaded language in that report than anyone should be able or allowed to pack in a TV wrap-up.

Bryan on January 25, 2007 at 9:56 PM

Frustrating indeed. All that needs to be shown is a shot of the Iraqis doing their job, and add in a little holier than thou British commentary, and the whole country is in chaos.

Who knows why they treated the mortar carriers badly. I don’t think it was out of line at all. They were still alive when they were thrown into the truck, which is more than you can say for many of the people they were targeting.

You’ll have to excuse my French, but I don’t feel ambivalent about it. Until you’ve had incoming mortar rounds screaming over your head or exploding around you I don’t want to hear anything. Jon Snow, fuck you. If you had a tape of American soldiers running into a burning building you wouldn’t have run it.

I get so sick and tired of civilians commenting on this war without the least bit of context. Guess what people: war is hell. People get hurt and die. It brings out the worst in all of us. That’s what makes it so bad. That’s why when we fight a war, we fight it to win so we don’t have to do it again 20 years later.