VT REPORTS: ACTUALLY NOTHING TO REPORT
NO NEWS, JUST A WAR AND NOBODY KNOWS WHAT IS GOING ON
By Gordon Duff
Marines are taking up positions across southern Iraq, moving into the major opium growing areas that were previously under exclusive British and Taliban control. We know this because we are told this. There, however, is no "Ernie Pyle" serving with the troops, nobody really reporting on anything.
The science of "embedding" is even no longer applicable. Embedding put friendly and tame journalists unfamiliar with miltiary activities with units in the field in order to put out fluff news. There are dozens of combat vets available who are qualified journists but we are uninvited, like a KKK uncle at an Obama rally.
VT News Network has enough staff to send reporters to accompany ‘front line’ Marines on operations in Iraq. Hell, I will go. I am qualified to wear the uniform, I can still get around with enough ibuprofen and tape and I am certainly as crazy as everyone else. Wouldn’t it be nice if we heard, on a daily basis, what was happening to our troops? I think they deserve it and someone needs to get off their fat asses and volunteer.
I have had enough of press releases and REMF Q & A sessions describing a sanitized war to us. We also get way too much disinformation and misinformation from groups that all have something to gain by supporting or opposing war.
Its time we humanized the inhumanity of war AGAIN, as we had in the past. We need to move past the culture of continual lying, the coverups and the "war as a game" pattern that seems to have survived the Bushit years.
I want to know who is fighting the war. I want to see it up front and personal and report it. If our kids can fight, then our damned reporters can stand there next to them.
PHOTO: YOUR REPORTER HEADING OUT TO INTERVIEW LOCAL AGRICULTURAL WORKERS SOMEWHERE IN S.E. ASIA.
As some of us are qualified to be out there with them, as so many of us are combat veterans, why can’t we be allowed into the field the way it was done since the Civil War?
If our kids are going to die, then maybe they can, at least, kill off a fatass reporter or two in the process.
We have lost some already. We have more on trial looking for the truth in Iran and elsewhere.
Maybe we need to make the effort to put reporters WITH the troops, reporters who know what is going on and not REMF weenies with an axe to grind.
We owe our kids that much. Hell, they might actually find some of us amusing.
Gordon Duff is a Marine combat veteran and regular contributor on political and social issues.
Gordon Duff posted articles on VT from 2008 to 2022. He is a Marine combat veteran of the Vietnam War. A disabled veteran, he worked on veterans and POW issues for decades.
Gordon is an accredited diplomat and is generally accepted as one of the top global intelligence specialists. He manages the world’s largest private intelligence organization and regularly consults with governments challenged by security issues.
Duff has traveled extensively, is published around the world, and is a regular guest on TV and radio in more than “several” countries. He is also a trained chef, wine enthusiast, avid motorcyclist, and gunsmith specializing in historical weapons and restoration. Business experience and interests are in energy and defense technology.
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