WMD Suggestion to Intelligence Guys
Check out this outrageous article.
Matt's Chat
I'm going to quote from it fairly extensively, but my suggestion is for our intelligence forces to start tailing the media. They seem to be able to find these guys and are able to get them to pose for pictures and such. Why would terrorists allow that to begin with...hmm...perhaps you should draw your own conclusions.Over the past three months, TIME has interviewed dozens of insurgents and disgruntled Iraqis, attended resistance meetings and viewed videotape of attacks against coalition forces. Often reporters have been required to submit to blindfolds, circuitous drives by night, vehicle switching, meetings that rarely occurred in the same place and, of course, frequent personal searches for phones and tracking devices. (At no time did TIME reporters have prior information about attacks.) As seen from the inside, the insurgency looks as complex and diverse an enemy as the U.S. could possibly face.
Why doesn't the President award these guys the Medal of Freedom? I just don't understand it...
Showing Firepower: Inside Attack on Baghdad Airport: At the modest farmhouse of a fellow member of his network of insurgents one recent evening, Abu Ali, the nom de guerre he has chosen welcomes seven fighters into a room lined with worn sofas. Checking his watch, he abruptly rises from a sofa, throws on a woolen overcoat and orders everyone, including the reporter, to move out. The men pile into three cars and tear off in different directions. For more than an hour they cruise near the launch site until all looks clear. Then a small team walks into a flat field to aim a rack of homemade launching tubes toward the lights of the Baghdad airport, home to U.S. chopper squadrons, supply units and the CIA-led Iraq Survey Group, less than two miles away. The insurgents load three air-to-air rockets they have modified to launch from the ground, flash a signal with car headlights and disappear. A second team creeps in to fire the volley, while a security detail armed with assault rifles and machine guns forms a perimeter. Beyond these fighters, according to the cell's security chief, a ring of men with shoulder-fired surface-to-air missiles and rocket-propelled grenades is watching for U.S. helicopters that might try to stop them, TIME reports.
And these reporters should be charged with treason. Or maybe consorting with the enemy. These guys have forgotten that they are AMERICANS, that much is certain.
Bolder, Better Organized "They Could Succeed": Attacks against coalition forces have grown bolder, better organized and broader based. A double ambush last week in Samarra "was the biggest, most sophisticated so far," says a senior intelligence official in Washington. As a Pentagon official sees it: "They know they can't beat us militarily, but they think they might be able to defeat us politically." The guerrillas are trying to drive U.S. casualties so high that the American public turns against the war, he says, adding, "They could succeed."
I suspect Jayson Blair-esque "reporting" here. Or at the least, a comment taken out of context. The point that this "official" would be making is that the political game in which we could lose is IF we pull our troops out. The political game that the liberals are playing BENEFITS THE TERRORISTS.
"Allah is Great": Not all the rank-and-file fighters are die-hard Saddam supporters. Many are thought to be devout Iraqi Muslims who believe that fighting "infidel" occupiers is a Koranic imperative. Tensions exist between former military officers and paid militia, called fedayeen in insurgent circles, and the Muslim fighters who label themselves mujahedin, or holy warrior. U.S. officials believe most of them then carry out missions under the orders of Saddam loyalists. "They use the fundamentalists as cannon fodder," especially for lethal attacks on soft targets involving car bombs, say the officials. "Suicide bombers are generally not Iraqis or former regime types." Abu Abdullah, who earns his living building houses along the Euphrates River , says, "Islam tells us that no one should occupy our land. The Koran allows us to kill anyone to defend our country."
It is NOT about religion regardless how many terrorists TIME interviews that try to sell this old line...
The Terrorists -- "Down with the U.S.": Senior U.S. intelligence officials say a small number of dedicated terrorists slipped into the country just after the U.S. invasion. "They are burrowing way down, looking for opportunities to strike for maximum political impact," contends Senator Jack Reed, a Democrat who toured Iraq with colleague Hillary Clinton.
Maximum political impact FOR WHOM?
Mark's Remarks
And the media claims it is not anti-American or giving preference to terrorists? This shows you the indemic hate America/military attitude in the press. Bernie Goldberg was all over it in Arrogance. This article should be used as evidence in a trial of these reporters. There is a difference between freedom of speech and expression and treasonous and seditious language. These writers crossed it. Instead, they are acting as propagandists for terrorists. Great reporting, maybe the Nobel Committee will give you a reward simply because you are against Bush (read: Jimmy Carter).
