CNN Brings Comfort and Aid to the Enemy

kiwimac · 10-28-2006, 12:53 AM

If it not ok to see a US soldier killed on film, it is equally not acceptable to see an Iraqi killed on tape either.

Kiwimac

102first_hussars · 10-28-2006, 05:20 AM

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Originally Posted by ndicki

This might amuse you - here in France (pause for boos, whistles, etc) CNN is considered as an extremist pro-Bush (the penultimate sin in French eyes) warmongering TV station which hates the French (the ultimate sin in French eyes).

Pity that's not true!

Really????????? CNN Pro-Bush hmmmmm? well no its............. clearly not

ndicki · 10-28-2006, 05:24 AM

Well, I did say it's a pity that wasn't true. Most French people don't know about Fox News, or they'd have apoplexy!

102first_hussars · 10-28-2006, 05:44 AM

yeah i noticed that....just noticed that

Kiwikid · 10-28-2006, 07:10 AM

I think you guys are missing the point about what the CNN item was trying to say or the context in which they showed it.

The French are entitled to have a different viewpoint. They did after all send an armoured division into Iraq in Desert Storm alongside US troops. It doesn't make them anti American just because they have a different view of the world than the US has.

DerAdlerIstGelandet · 10-28-2006, 07:10 AM

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Originally Posted by Kiwikid

we are only being guided by Harvard's outrage when he first posted.

No I am not being guided by his words. As a veteran of that quagmire over there in that damn sanbox, I am very angry that CNN would show **** like that.

lesofprimus · 10-28-2006, 07:41 AM

This right here is what those extremists and terrorists/insurgents are showing on their news channels, educating their children....

I hope Allah sticks pineapples up their asses daily...

mkloby · 10-28-2006, 07:54 AM

Sorry I've been away guys been busy - HQ Marine Corps decided that they're training me to fly the MV-22 instead of helos, so I just found out and have been playing the unit check out games.

I think the french position is clear that they want to be the voice of a cohesive independently minded europe, free from us influence. Problem is, they're not.

Les, that video was horrid. I turned it off. Another example - the american public does not have the right to see that. Free press does not belong in the middle of a war - not like that or the other instances spoke about earlier.

DerAdlerIstGelandet · 10-28-2006, 08:53 AM

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Originally Posted by mkloby

Sorry I've been away guys been busy - HQ Marine Corps decided that they're training me to fly the MV-22 instead of helos, so I just found out and have been playing the unit check out games.

Damn that sucks, you would have loved Helos man. I am not a fan of the Osprey. Killed to many marines allready.

ndicki · 10-28-2006, 08:55 AM

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Originally Posted by mkloby

I think the French position is clear that they want to be the voice of a cohesive independently minded europe, free from us influence. Problem is, they're not.

Correct. The French have no intention of participating in a European Union made up of equal partners. They want to dictate policy to the others, full stop.

Example: shortly before the beginning of the assault on Iraq, a number of EU states and soon-to-be EU states signed a document to the effect that they supported Allied action in the Gulf. One signatory was our old friend and staunch ally, Poland.

Jacques Chirac, the French president, insulted the Poles terribly when he stated publicly that they had wasted an opportunity to shut up.

As long as you agree with France's foreign policy, you can have a foreign policy. Otherwise you can not, was the clear message.

If I'd been Polish, I know what I'd have said; exactly what I say now anyway.

For the last thousand years, my ancestors have fought and died to preserve our way of life, ideals, ideas, culture and above all, national and individual freedom; and we of this generation are throwing it away on a plate to the very people we fought.

Of course, if you say anything like that to any of these Euro-nutters, they call you a Fascist. And all I want is freedom.

lesofprimus · 10-28-2006, 08:56 AM

Have to agree mk, that clip is horrid, and shows the difference between Western and Eastern values... They show their children these videos and praise each other for their devotion to Allah and the cause....

Great freakin role models...

The normal un-educated population has no need to see these kind of clips, I agree... They do serve their purpose in certain aspects, but the bottom line is that the media/press/scumbags should never televise this sh!t as it glorifies their ability to strike fear and terrorize....

As one of my favorite t-shirts states: "Fu*k em all, let Allah sort em out..."

DerAdlerIstGelandet · 10-28-2006, 01:11 PM

I have to agree with ndicki on the French. I really hate when come over here to Germany, act all snobby and try to dictate the way things should be.

Sometimes I just want to look at them and say:

"6 weeks, thats all it took 60 years ago, 6 weeks!"

ndicki · 10-28-2006, 01:19 PM

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Originally Posted by DerAdlerIstGelandet

I have to agree with ndicki on the French. I really hate when come over here to Germany, act all snobby and try to dictate the way things should be.

Sometimes I just want to look at them and say:

"6 weeks, thats all it took 60 years ago, 6 weeks!"

Between you and me, that's about all it would take now, as well. Behind the bullsh*t and some reasonable kit here and there (it LOOKS good, which is more important to them than what it actually does), they are, globally, rubbish troops.

mkloby · 10-28-2006, 02:40 PM

As a Marine - looking good is very important! Even more important, however, is being able to close with and destroy your enemy. Unfortunately, they dress like sh*t.

FLYBOYJ · 10-28-2006, 03:03 PM

I once heard a carrier pilot say, "It's better to die than look bad."