I wish to place a very smart post here on Oprano

RawAlex · 05-04-2004

PD, we are all entitled to an opinion. Don't like mine? GFY, plain and simple. No arrogance. No superiority. I feel very inferior in many ways. But I am not going to just parrot the information tossed at them. Chain letters ("Please share it with your friends and compare it to the version that your paper is producing") in any form suck. This letter is a clear attempt to put forth a "liberal media sucks" message, which plays best to the people who most support the war.

The letter worked, search google and you will find hundreds of links to it... probably 90% of them call BS, same as I did.

Peaches, I did a Google search before calling BS. I looked at about 10 different websites for an opinion. I have seen and read this letter in the past. The information on it comes mostly from US military news briefing documents and USA-AID (I think that is the name) information packages. There is no real way to verify the information. Someone who is a medic or a communications guy is very unlikely to have all this info in his hands while in theater in Iraq.

Unless of course the 234th's job includes distributing information to the public of Iraq. Then he would certainly have all the information the military wants to have put out there.

How much of it is really true? Your linked site (orwelliantimes) says:

Quote:

The email is not informative, but disinformation. It's propaganda. While he did not cite any particular rule, Lt. Col. Hapgood said that members of the force are not to take a politically partisan stance in any communications they use in which they identify themselves as members of the force. Lt. Col. Hapgood, in essence, also said that it was improper for Sgt. Reynolds to attack Senator Kerry in his email.

I call BS exactly for the same reasons others have called BS. The content is full of misinformation and lies, the information on the person who wrote it is not correct (he is a medic, he is in communications, he is a cop, he is a firefighter, he is a civilian now, he is in kuwait now)... too much double talk tells me there is enough BS is here to write it all off. Just like a court of law, if a witness is caught lying, it is unlikely that anything else they say will be taken as fact.

Alex