Pentagaon makes YouTube video to show the good news in Iraq

[Philosoraptor]

http://www.mediachannel.org/wordpress/2007/05/01/us-military-shows-its-side-of-iraq-war-on-youtube/

Islamic militants use the Internet to promote themselves and recruit followers with videos of tearful hostages, exploding military vehicles and U.S. soldiers cut down by sniper fire. No longer confined to a few obscure websites, the footage is turning up on popular video-sharing sites such as YouTube.

Now the U.S. military is offering up its side of the war. Available for download are blistering firefights across rooftops, nighttime raids filmed through the green glow of night-vision devices and a “precision strike” that wiped out an insurgent antiaircraft gun in a huge ball of fire.

“This effort was not designed to combat what ends up on extremist websites,” said Lt. Col. Christopher Garver, a spokesman for the U.S. military in Iraq. “But we understand that it is a battle space in which we have not been active, and this is a media we can use to get our story told.”

Military commanders have long complained about the “negative” slant of Iraq reporting, with its focus on the violence that has claimed tens of thousands of lives since U.S.-led forces invaded in March 2003.

[atreides1]

1. And at the same time

Have stopped the troops from blogging, and now requires the troops to get permission to send e-mails to their families.

You can just smell the hypocrisy, can't you?

[napi21]

2. I saw that last night on the news. They even felt compeled to state...

"These video's are NOT staged! We just want to show everyone that there is another side to this war!"

I found it quite interesting that they felt they had to say it wasn't staged! Personally, I think it was, or at the very least, severly edited!

Sorry DOD, it was a cute trick, but we're not buying it!

[Scurrilous]

3. These type of videos are on liveleak.com also.

Top of the page:

"The US Army, Marines, and the Iraqi Army bravely battle Al'Qaeda in the bloody streets of Ramadi, Iraq. 2006."

[Zodiak]

4. What is the difference between the terrorists and the army

both are making videos of killing people and broadcasting them.

I find it disgusting.

[Rageneau]

5. Us kill them, good TV; them kill us, double-plus ungood TV.

Meanwhile, let's group hate Emmnuel GoldClinton.