Let's see, you want us to believe our troops force their way into a hospital and did all those things. After what the AP did the other with printing the photo of the young marine. You want us to trust and believe anything the AP prints. I have served with members of the 10th Mountain and they are very professional. sounds like the Swedish and AP are, as always, against our troops. I miss UPI!!!
#12 | POSTED BY YOEMANBOB AT 2009-09-08 12:38 AM
Very interesting pov.
Let's see if I have you correct.
AP posts a picture of one of our troops dying and it offends you. You don't want to see or anyone else to see the TRUTH, eh?
A picture is worth a thousand words, it is said.
Let's see what the "founding fathers" had to say about freedom of the press, since the hysterical right wingers are always trying to tell us what they said and meant....
"Be not intimidated, therefore, by any terrors, from publishing with the utmost freedom whatever
can be warranted by the laws of your country, nor suffer yourselves to be wheeled out of your
library by any pretense of politeness, delicacy or decency. These, as they are often used, are but
three different names for hypocrisy, chicanery and cowardice."
John Adams
From an Essay for the Boston Gazette
*1765
"If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody,
there would be very little printed."
Benjamin Franklin
[1706-1790]
"When the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe."
Thomas Jefferson
1799
"Nothing could be more irrational than to give the people power, and to withhold from them
information without which power is abused. A people who mean to be their own governors must
arm themselves with power which knowledge gives. A popular government without popular
information or the means of acquiring it is but a prologue to a farce or a tragedy, or perhaps
both."
James Madison
[1751-1836]
"Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must undergo the fatigue of supporting it."
Thomas Paine
[1737-1809]
"If men are to be precluded from offering their sentiments on a matter, which may involve the
most serious and alarming consequences that can invite the consideration of mankind, reason is of
no use to us, the freedom of speech may be taken away, and dumb and silent we may be led, like
sheep to the slaughter."
George Washington
Address to Officers of the Army
March 15, 1783
nie.miamiherald.com
A compilation of over 200 comments for freedom of the press...
I guess some like the idea of sending our troops to die in unnecessary invasions/occupations for the benefit of a few war/oil profiteers, as long as they don't have to actually sacrifice anything themselves or actually SEE the results.....eh? Out of sight, out of mind, eh?
