60 Minutes tonight: Interview with U,S. Soldier from Iraq now

[annabanana]

Was involved with "graveyard battle" in Najaf...Lost 4 or 5 team members.

[skooooo]

1. Is it on yet? details?

[annabanana]

2. Kid talking about

"close in fighting, you can see his face, look in his eyes, it's kind of different"

[annabanana]

3. some hand to hand

Iraqi's using mortars. Lost 3 radio tech & both medics
One had a still camera (pretty scary)

When Al Sadr left, his fighters left with their weapons...

Now onto policy in Fallujah

[mourningdove92]

4. It was a good segment.

Fair, showed the good and the bad. It was not leaning left or right. Just the facts, honest interviews with marines. People are allowed to draw their own conclusions.

Wish we had more reporting like this.

[faithnotgreed]

12. just what i was thinking (like most of us here!). just show

us the truth, whatever it is. no editing or loaded questions or running the unsubstantiated smear ads and pass that off as news

just do the fact checking and report on everything you can prove. isnt that what journalism is?

[spanone]

5. They showed amazing photographs from the graveyard fight.

Some of the first 'real' pictures I've seen from Iraq since we invaded. Maybe CBS will choose to expose bush* as retribution. No other news program has even remotely challenged rove.

[Cleopatra2a]

7. I was thinking the same thing

You don't see that on the news. The sad part was the chaplain blessing them during the battle. I remember when I was in Kuwait right before the invasion. We had 1000s of Marines and Army guys ready to go over the border. I would go to Mass every Sunday and as it got closer the small chapel was standing room only with people waiting outside for the priest. I remember this one very young Marine throwing himself down on his knees in front of the priest waiting for his blessing. Very sad.

[TrogL]

8. I'll bet I know what they're doing

I haven't seen the pictures, but I remember what it was like watching US TV during the Vietnam era. Every day they would show combat footage, followed by a litany of the dead and injured on both sides. People quickly figured out the numbers were complete fiction.

Those people who remember that will react negatively towards the administration seeing this kind of stuff on TV again.

[Rose Siding]

16. On Fri nights, CBS is giving casualty counts

just like in the 60's

[Pallas180]

21. My thought too. Every night a body count like Viet Nam - and it

was that that made people angry and crazy....

that may be why the cabal is getting ready to go to Code REd,
cause they know the Iraqis are going to fight harder now, and
Americans will be yelling for that assache to get the hell out of
Iraq.

That was what FEMA was invented for under Reagan.

To corrall dissenters to wars Reagan was going to embark on.

[leftchick]

11. you know what was missing?

photos of dead and wounded soldiers. I did not see any. I believe father pravda is still in control. But it is a start!

[milkyway]

6. bin Laden to bush: Thanks for the great recruiting photos!

Nothing like American troops in an Iraqi cemetery to recruit more jihadists. It wasn't our troops that decided to make the cemetery a battleground, but I don't think that will be pointed out by al Queda.

[Gin]

9. The graveyard segment was surreal......how in the hell can anyone

survive that? The fighting was close enough to smell the opponents..forgive us god. What have we done to our men and women?

[Tsiyu]

10. "I've been ten thousand miles in the mouth of a graveyard."

I keep thinking ( and singing) that Dylan song. I first heard it when I was five or so.

We can only hope that Rather is stoked. My e-mail and others to my local channel ( that failed to air last week's 60 minutes II) may have worked a bit. They actually showed some shots of peaceful protesters ( folks outside Unfit for Command writer's house HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!) and profiled a Kerry supporter on the med news segment. Believe me, that's progress.

[DemoTex]

14. Mouth of a graveyard ...

In Vietnam (more specifically, in Laos) we called it "the mouth of the cat of death." I've looked down that cat's throat a few times.

[skooooo]

18. wow...that's appropriate.

thanks for making me think of that line!

[DemoTex]

13. More Bu$h lies of omission.

The Najaf cemetery battle was never really covered by the mainstream press. This is another whitewash of this despicable war. The cemetery battle is certainly one of the most bizarre in USMC history. The propagandist realize that way too much ink was given to the street fighting in Hue in 1968. So that problem is under control. Again, kudos to 60-Minutes: Inflicting the truth, cut-by-stinging-cut.

[DS1]

15. Where are the posters that are only here on DU to call

our troops baby-filleting pig-fuckers?

[mhr]

17. What Is Your Point DS1 - Our Troops Have Committed War Crimes

Here is proof.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1303827,00.html

'He's just sleeping, I kept telling myself'

On Sunday, 13 Iraqis were killed and dozens injured in Baghdad when US helicopters fired on a crowd of unarmed civilians. G2 columnist Ghaith Abdul-Ahad, who was injured in the attack, describes the scene of carnage - and reveals just how lucky he was to walk away
Ghaith Abdul-Ahad
Tuesday September 14, 2004

The Guardian
It started with a phone call early on Sunday morning: "Big pile of smoke over Haifa Street." Still half asleep I put on my jeans, cursing those insurgents who do their stuff in the early morning. What if I just go back to bed, I thought - by the time I will be there it will be over. In the car park it struck me that I didn't have my flak jacket in the car, but figured it was most probably just an IED (improvised explosive device) under a Humvee and I would be back soon.

On the way to Haifa Street I was half praying that everything would be over or that the Americans would seal off the area. I haven't recovered from Najaf yet.

Haifa Street was built by Saddam in the early 80s, part of a scheme that was supposed to give Baghdad a modern look. A long, wide boulevard with huge Soviet high-rise buildings on both sides, it acts like a curtain, screening off the network of impoverished alleyways that are inhabited by Baghdad's poorest and toughest people, many of whom are from the heart of the Sunni triangle.

When I arrived there I saw hundreds of kids and young men heading towards the smoke. "Run fast, it's been burning for a long time!" someone shouted as I grabbed my cameras and started to run.

When I was 50m away I heard a couple of explosions and another cloud of dust rose across the street from where the first column of smoke was still climbing. People started running towards me in waves. A man wearing an orange overall was sweeping the street while others were running. A couple of helicopters in the sky overhead turned away. I jumped into a yard in front of a shop that was set slightly back from the street, 10 of us with our heads behind the yard wall. "It's a sound bomb," said a man who had his face close to mine.

Snip ....

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

20. What's your point -- to bring out such posts when they weren't on this

thread already? What's your agenda? If you don't like that why would you call for such posts when they aren't here?

[Pallas180]

19. My 60 minutes was surplanted by football. dammmmmm