Anybody Following The (LOL) RWer "Truth Tour" In Iraq

[K8-EEE]

Wow it is something, they have a whole section on this at Freeperville and it's amazing to watch the RW cultists desperately grasping for all the great news in Iraq that's "ignored by the MSM!"

So far they have resorted to waxing poetic about how courageous everyone is to be there....a far cry from the rosy predictions from all the RW koolaid krowd I know, who claimed in 2003 that ALL WE HAD TO DO WAS UPSET SADDAM and everything would be honky-dory! AND THE OIL WOULD PAY FOR IT...

Since these jokers already anounced they would be "Americans first and journalists second" and basically have said the only "news" they are willing to report is "good news" about the glorious liberation, it's kind of funny to watch them stretch to put it on a positive light. A lot of "jeez are we tired! more later..." type stuff. A lot of "we have a long way to go but we're making progress!" right out of a GWB speech....

Natch they are all in the Green Zone, which from what I hear might as well be a separate country from the rest of Iraq or the rest of Baghdad for that matter. Still the news sounds less than glorious

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/keyword?k=voicesofsoldiers

[mike_c]

1. only reporting the good news from Iraq is a great idea....

What a great way to save bandwidth....

[acmavm]

3. Didn't anyone tell these freaks that the Iraqis just asked for another 98

billion dollars so they can have things like water and electricity?

Morans.

[madeline_con]

2. These people...

are such great journalists! :sarcasm:

I read some of them intended to give their escorts the slip, and run around doing interviews. The brass got nervous...

[wli]

4. just get them to tour outside the Green Zone

Then we won't have to worry about them anymore.

[madeline_con]

7. What a headline "Truth Tour Lost to Homocide Bombers"

:rofl:

[sleipnir]

11. But...But...You can't kill the Truth.

:rofl:

[TriMetFan]

14. I wish.

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[zulchzulu]

5. Ah yes...building schools and homes....um...that WE BLEW UP EARLIER

That's always the RW story...weepily say how they are rebuilding schools, homes and cleaning up the river...

They DON'T tell you that the troops are guarding the KBR staff that are making tons of money at America's expense from military actions that used more ammunition than all of WW II combined on a country we've been bombing for over 12 years.

I wonder if that's what they will report....

[Old and In the Way]

6. I wonder how the troops feel?

Knowing that the bullshit these people are "reporting" on will only delay our country's day of reckoning that this war in unwinnable. Who really loses with the "truth tour"? They do, of course.

These propagandists can pretend all they want, but their stay is rather short. Perhaps if they were forced to stay until the last troops are evac'd, they might be motivated to report the real, unvarnished truth.

[GoneOffShore]

8. And a different take from the BBC

Iraq's descent into bombing quagmire
John Simpson

By John Simpson
BBC world affairs editor


Here in Baghdad, it's beginning to feel like a critical moment.

In the last week this city has seen 22 car bombs, with 10 on a single day - last Friday. Not far from Baghdad, at Musayyib, between Hilla and Karbala, nearly 100 Shia Muslims were killed.

The shadowy resistance movements seem to be operating on a new and much more ambitious level.

Last summer, and in the summer of 2003, there were similar peaks, though much lower ones: The ferocious heat seems to produce new reserves of anger and violence here.

As I flew in, sitting in the aircraft cockpit, Baghdad lay dark and irregular, like a blotch of ink, straight ahead of us. Below lay the ribbon of road from the south.

In the months after the US-led invasion of Iraq we used to drive up that road to get to Baghdad. By the beginning of 2004 that was already becoming much too dangerous, and we had to fly.
<snip>

The US and British governments saw the invasion of Iraq as a liberation, a way of getting rid of a particularly nasty regime. Instead, things are getting much worse.

The casualty figures mean that on average as many people are now dying here every day as were killed in the London bombings nearly two weeks ago.

It has become a civil war, fought out with car bombs and shots to the head, while the foreign forces, US and British and the rest, look on, incapable of stopping it. This isn't how things were supposed to turn out here.
Full story at link:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4692881.stm

Would be an interesting exercise to post bits of the above in Freeperland as a kind of counterpoint to their Pollyanna musings.
Of course, it would last about 60 seconds, if that.

[leesa]

9. Did they find anything good yet?

[K8-EEE]

12. They're Finding LOTS of Courage....

and whew they're just too beat to comment on all the other GREAT new things going on in Iraq but they will do so later....as soon as they can make some up. Bet SOMETHING got a new paint job today on our dime! Better enjoy it while it lasts...

[GeorgeBushytail]

10. Swift Report's satire of the tour - "We won!"

http://swiftreport.blogs.com/news/2005/07/iraqi_truth_tou.html#more

"While you all back at home are being fed nothing but negativity, we arrived here earlier this week to discover that the war is already over, and guess what? We won!"

"Luckily there is so much good news to report right here that we haven’t needed to leave the Green Zone at all."

It's also funny to read the comments. IT'S SATIRE, FOLKS!

[LynnTheDem]

13. I don't know about their poll, though...which way should I respond?

Should President Bush and Karl Rove be able to enjoy the same benefits and responsibilities that married couples have?

Yes

No

:D