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Interesting news ...
Dec. 10th, 2004 11:36 pmWe'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 ...
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 ...
