Interesting news ...

[fiat_knox]

We'll start with this snippet found on the ITV News website: here.

There's also something about this on the BBC's news website here.

Please pay close attention to the line at the bottom of the ITV news item, which reads: "As many as 5,000 US soldiers are believed to have turned their backs on the army since the start of the war in Iraq."

Five thousand troops!

The funny thing is, the BBC's site does not mention the staggering number of US troop desertions.

The reason I bring this whole thing up is that ITV's news programme, which I just watched, described the situation as having "shades of Vietnam."

Of course, it also showed Bush in shirtsleeves, packing care packages to the troops and making merry, as you would expect from the Pentagon's vast PR Division: but the segment they showed also reprised that seminal moment when the soldier confronted Donald Rumsfeld with that impertinent little question about why US troops had to scavenge rubbish dumps to find armour to patch up their tanks with.

Oh, and there was one conscientious objector who movingly spoke of having to act in protest against being ordered to perform actions which were morally and ethically wrong.

Just thought I'd bring this whole thing up now, for all you beleaguered Usarians who might feel that the world has deserted you in your hour of need.

We haven't. We're still reporting the truth over here, despite Smiley Blair and his censorious cronies ...

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Post Script ...

[fiat-knox.livejournal.com]

And, just to keep the news alive, keep it right there in the faces of those who would bury it and try and con the world into believing this never happened, I give you this (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/4079891.stm).

Have a peaceful, serene weekend, people.

I may dislike...

[wolf-heart9.livejournal.com]

...this country a lot. But while I think that America may suck and may do a lot of shitty things, I certainly don't think that all our media is intentionally trying to hide things from the world. Nor do I think that the BBC is handing out the complete truth...sadly, unless you're dealing with underground journalism that doesn't go through mainstream publication, people will never get the absolute truth because there are conservative channels through every station/newspaper/whatever that will put the kybosh on the truth if they think it will jeopardise them. So don't think that the BBC is the only news out there reporting the truth as if all Americans are happier being deluded by pretty stories. Most of us aren't.

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[raven611.livejournal.com]

You have my attention, you are a friend of craigs. To my friends list to please. You have a fresh flavour that will mix with mine. We shall make a nice goolauch