CNN on Battle of Fallujah – The Anvil of God?

Sat Sep 01, 2007

Here’s what was said about the Battle of Fallujah on Dailykos at the time.

No civilian deaths in Fallujah

Did anyone see CNN’s piece on the Battle of Fallujah last night?

It was called The Anvil of God. This is glaring propaganda and to
borrow from Thomas Paine, an insult to God. There is no evidense that
God had anything to do with.

It said that there was “no evidense” for the claims of
civilian casualties. A more accurate statement would be
that reports of civilian casualties were repressed, hidden,
dismissed, ignored and denied by US authorities.

Full of glittering generalities, euphemisms, unwarranted extrapolation and the illogic of the “we must destroy the village in order to save it” ilk, this piece by CNN was propaganda that would make the Nazis cheer.

It was all about the heroism of our soldiers and the evil of
the terrorists in Fallujah. All glittering generalities. The story begins for CNN with the gruesome murder of the 4 contractors in Iraq.

The story began way before that for Fallujah.

There was the 1920 resistance there against the British, the bombing of a market in Fallujah during the first Gulf War, the killing of 15 demonstrators in April 2003 as they demanded that US forces get out of their children’s schoolhouse.

there was the rounding up of young men and sending them to Abu Graib, there was the unprovoked bombing and invasion of Iraq in the first place.

The people of Fallujah, except for young males who could be
resistance fighters were forced to evacuate their city and go
to camps, chicken coops in the countryside, wherever – they were
made homeless.

There city was destroyed by our bombing – water and electrical power have still not been restored -

The people left in the city were killed, thousands of people that
no one bothered to count, women, children, elderly along with
the suspect young males.

About 40 US soldiers were killed.

Fallujah was destroyed.

CNN has glorified and romanticized this horror and will
continue to help lead our country into disasterous wars
with it’s slick propaganda.

My heart goes out to all those who suffer under the
current failed leadership of our nation and the failed
stewardship of its citizens in the media.
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dogs ate the corpses?

I couldn’t watch it, what was going on with them, some kind of back room deal to seduce young people into joining up? Was this some kind of propaganda meant to avoid the draft? Who produced this ’show,’ does anyone know? And those fighters are now sold as our allies against bin Laden?

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http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2007/9/1/401/95077

Iraq: A 75% Drop In Killing If You Don’t Count The Bodies

Shouldn’t the Justice Department be investigating this?

Oh, sorry. The bush backers still control our government. Justice is only a faded memory.

Sickening.

We know you are sorry, now apologize.

jack jett

Scary how little ‘provocation’ was necessary tho.

Either way, I’d press charges for harassment, then sue him for pain and suffering.

He will be defeated after 1 term.

How pathetic to have to troll progressive sites to get attention. Just a small, sad man.

And, in breaking news, neither Bill nor Hillary Clinton have ever used a curse word before ; )

This just in…it appears that no one takes Shakey’s tired “Clinton Did It” rhetoric seriously.

In related, news, we have confirmed reports that no one takes Shakey seriously. ^_^

We now return you to your regularly scheduled thread.

Like a roach. Smash.

LOL Hypocrite.