2003 Soap Box Archives

From The Horse’s Mouth 08/18/03

If you listen to the mainstream press these days you are inundated with
stories which make it sound as if our troops in Iraq are ready to
mutiny to get out of there and come home.

I certainly believe that everybody over there would like nothing better
than to hop on an airplane and wake up in the good old U.S.A. But
these people are hardened professional warriors and not the wusses the
press make them out to be.

In fact they have very little use for most of the media and tell a
totally different story than what we get in the newspapers and see on
our television screens.

I am going to quote from an e-mail from a soldier stationed in Iraq.
I am going to quote several passages so you can hear the other side of
the story.

“It isn’t any worse than expected”

“Things are getting better each day and the morale of the troops is A-1
except for the normal bitching and griping.”

He also says that the Iraqi troublemakers riot on cue when they see a
television camera.

Another quote, ”I am no longer babysitting the pukes from CNN and the
canned hams from the networks, but have a combat mission coordinating a
bunch of teams seeking, finding and rooting out the mostly non Iraqis
that are well armed, well paid in US dollars and always waiting to wail
for the press and then shoot some GI in the back.”

“Electricity has been restored to pre war levels but saboteurs keep
cutting the lines.”

“A mosque in that (expletive depleted) Fallujah blew up this morning
while the local Imam, a creep named Fahlil, (who was one of the biggest
loudmouths that frequently appeared on CNN) was helping a Syrian Hamas
member teach eight teenagers how to make belt bombs. Right away the
local Feyhadeen propaganda group started wailing that the Americans had
hit it with a tow missile. (If they had there wouldn’t have been any
mosque left) and the usual suspects took to the streets looking for
CNN and BBC. One fool was dragging around a piece of tin with blood on
it , claiming it was part of the missile.”

“The cameras rolled and the idiot started repeating his story, then one
of my guys asked him in Arabic where he had left the rag he usually
wore around his face that made him look like a girl. He was the local
leader of the Feyhadeen. We took the clown in custody and were asked
rather indignantly by the twit from BBC if we were trying to shut the
poor man up, the poor man who had seen his mosque and and friends blown
up.”

“I suggested that we take him down to the local jail and we’d lock him
and his camera man in a cell with the ‘poor man’ and they could
interview him until we took him to headquarters. They declined the
invitation.”

He also states that the man was a Palestinian and that he was shown on
the BBC that night as a victim in shock at seeing his mosque and
friends destroyed.

The soldier had a lot more to say, all of it unfavorable to the press.
It seems that we are being told what the media wants us to know and not
what is actually happening.

Whatever happened to the truth?

Pray for our troops.

What do you think?

God Bless America

Charlie Daniels