yeat182
11/19/04, 10:21 AM
i came across this link on fark.com today, its from blog, and yes, it is very biased, so ignore the mocking of liberals. the overall story, however, raises a good point, as the title on fark reads: "Media only too happy to run a million Abu Ghraib photos, but hasn't run a single one on the Fallujah hostage slaughterhouse"
posted on this site: http://junkyardblog.net/archives/week_2004_11_14.html
THE PRESS IS HIDING THE SLAUGHTERHOUSES OF FALLUJAH
In the age of mass media and instant news, if we don't see images of something how long will our memories of it last? Our troops fighting in Fallujah have reportedly discovered several slaughterhouses--places where terrorists killed innocent civilians in brutal, disgusting fashion--around the city. But have you seen any pictures of those slaughterhouses? I haven't, and I think it's important that we do. We need to see what our enemy has been doing that led to the fighting there. We need to see why the Marines needed to be sent into that hellhole. The terrorist butcheries are part of why we're fighting there.
Let's take a walk around the media, in vain search of pictures of the Fallujah slaughterhouses. Here's a story about them, but what picture accompanies it? An unflattering shot of Iraqi PM Allawi.
Here's another story, no picture.
Chicago Tribune story, no pictures.
UK Times story, no pics.
The Australian runs a story, no photos.
The Independent runs a story about the discovery of a hostage chained to a wall in a slaughterhouse, no photos.
KC Star reports on the slaughterhouses, no photos.
Most of these stories are based on wire reports, either AP, AFP, UPI or Reuters. We've seen AP insert its photographers in terrorist units--how else does it get shots like this one? But the wires seem to have had no time to get a camera into any of these slaughterhouses that our troops have taken from the terrorists. We know these places exist, due to the fact that the terrorists had to have killed their victims somewhere. But all we have are brief descriptions. No photos.
Here are some Marines in a non-slaughterhouse in Fallujah, courtesy the Canadian Press. Here are some Marines in a house in which they found some IEDs, courtesy AP. On Yahoo's news photo search there are hundreds of photos from the battle of Fallujah, but none of them--not one--that I have found so far depict any of the slaughterhouses.
Why?
MORE: Sometimes I'd swear that leftism/liberalism are both a mental illness and a learning disability. Read through the comments on this post and you'll run across several mentally challenged individuals positing that there aren't any photos of the slaughterhouses because the slaughterhouses don't actually exist. Where to start to refute such utter stupidity?
If you leftists can actually read, click through to several of the stories I've linked in this post or go find a few of your own. If you can read and retain facts you may note that the descriptions in the stories are consistent, and that several of the reports include enough detail to lead one to the conclusion that the reporter who wrote the story was actually in the slaughterhouse at some point. Further, just use a little logic. I know, that's asking a lot, but work with me here. We know that the terrorists are in fact killing people, because we keep finding their bodies and we keep seeing the killings in snuff films on the internet. We see in those videos that the terrorists are doing their foul work in buildings of some kind. We know that the terrorists have been using Fallujah as a stronghold--their headquarters was in that city, after all--so it would stand to reason that the terrorists are doing their killing in buildings inside Fallujah. Right? Are you liberals still with me on this or should I slow down?
Logically speaking, we have found bodies and seen videos that lead to the reasonable conclusion that the terrorists are killing people in buildings in Fallujah. Our troops have spent the past week sweeping the terrorists out of that city, so it's reasonable to expect that our troops would at some point come across those buildings where the terrorists were killing people, right? Terrorists used the buildings, we're killing the terrorists, we're bound to find their hideouts in that process. So to then posit that because there aren't any photos of those buildings on the web--when we know reporters have actually been inside those buildings--means the buildings don't exist is, well, I can't really think of a name for it. Willfull stupidity? Blind dissent? I don't know what to call it. I assume you liberals have opposing thumbs and are capable of walking upright. I assume your brains are normal human grey matter. You can type because you left comments here, so you can obviously read words on a screen and react to them. But can you process facts and actually think for yourselves? I haven't seen much evidence that many of you can, but I'm persuadable on that.
MORE: It's pretty simple, folks. To prove that I'm wrong about this all you need to do is find a picture of a Fallujah slaughterhouse. Find it, send it to me, and I'll link it. And while you're looking for that photo, stop with the conspiracy theories and other irrelevant nonsense. You're just proving that my low opinion of leftists is basically correct.
posted on this site: http://junkyardblog.net/archives/week_2004_11_14.html
THE PRESS IS HIDING THE SLAUGHTERHOUSES OF FALLUJAH
In the age of mass media and instant news, if we don't see images of something how long will our memories of it last? Our troops fighting in Fallujah have reportedly discovered several slaughterhouses--places where terrorists killed innocent civilians in brutal, disgusting fashion--around the city. But have you seen any pictures of those slaughterhouses? I haven't, and I think it's important that we do. We need to see what our enemy has been doing that led to the fighting there. We need to see why the Marines needed to be sent into that hellhole. The terrorist butcheries are part of why we're fighting there.
Let's take a walk around the media, in vain search of pictures of the Fallujah slaughterhouses. Here's a story about them, but what picture accompanies it? An unflattering shot of Iraqi PM Allawi.
Here's another story, no picture.
Chicago Tribune story, no pictures.
UK Times story, no pics.
The Australian runs a story, no photos.
The Independent runs a story about the discovery of a hostage chained to a wall in a slaughterhouse, no photos.
KC Star reports on the slaughterhouses, no photos.
Most of these stories are based on wire reports, either AP, AFP, UPI or Reuters. We've seen AP insert its photographers in terrorist units--how else does it get shots like this one? But the wires seem to have had no time to get a camera into any of these slaughterhouses that our troops have taken from the terrorists. We know these places exist, due to the fact that the terrorists had to have killed their victims somewhere. But all we have are brief descriptions. No photos.
Here are some Marines in a non-slaughterhouse in Fallujah, courtesy the Canadian Press. Here are some Marines in a house in which they found some IEDs, courtesy AP. On Yahoo's news photo search there are hundreds of photos from the battle of Fallujah, but none of them--not one--that I have found so far depict any of the slaughterhouses.
Why?
MORE: Sometimes I'd swear that leftism/liberalism are both a mental illness and a learning disability. Read through the comments on this post and you'll run across several mentally challenged individuals positing that there aren't any photos of the slaughterhouses because the slaughterhouses don't actually exist. Where to start to refute such utter stupidity?
If you leftists can actually read, click through to several of the stories I've linked in this post or go find a few of your own. If you can read and retain facts you may note that the descriptions in the stories are consistent, and that several of the reports include enough detail to lead one to the conclusion that the reporter who wrote the story was actually in the slaughterhouse at some point. Further, just use a little logic. I know, that's asking a lot, but work with me here. We know that the terrorists are in fact killing people, because we keep finding their bodies and we keep seeing the killings in snuff films on the internet. We see in those videos that the terrorists are doing their foul work in buildings of some kind. We know that the terrorists have been using Fallujah as a stronghold--their headquarters was in that city, after all--so it would stand to reason that the terrorists are doing their killing in buildings inside Fallujah. Right? Are you liberals still with me on this or should I slow down?
Logically speaking, we have found bodies and seen videos that lead to the reasonable conclusion that the terrorists are killing people in buildings in Fallujah. Our troops have spent the past week sweeping the terrorists out of that city, so it's reasonable to expect that our troops would at some point come across those buildings where the terrorists were killing people, right? Terrorists used the buildings, we're killing the terrorists, we're bound to find their hideouts in that process. So to then posit that because there aren't any photos of those buildings on the web--when we know reporters have actually been inside those buildings--means the buildings don't exist is, well, I can't really think of a name for it. Willfull stupidity? Blind dissent? I don't know what to call it. I assume you liberals have opposing thumbs and are capable of walking upright. I assume your brains are normal human grey matter. You can type because you left comments here, so you can obviously read words on a screen and react to them. But can you process facts and actually think for yourselves? I haven't seen much evidence that many of you can, but I'm persuadable on that.
MORE: It's pretty simple, folks. To prove that I'm wrong about this all you need to do is find a picture of a Fallujah slaughterhouse. Find it, send it to me, and I'll link it. And while you're looking for that photo, stop with the conspiracy theories and other irrelevant nonsense. You're just proving that my low opinion of leftists is basically correct.