"war in Iraq unfold on CNN or FOX news didn't deliver the whole story"

[sabra]

http://www.therecordherald.com/articles/2006/08/15/local_news/news02.txt

57-year-old soldier back home safely from Iraq

Only three years away from retirement, Army Reserves Sgt. 1st Class Merritt, 57, of Greencastle volunteered to go to Iraq.
“You train for it, and you train for war,” Merritt said. “I was angry because of 9-11. When you see everyone go, you want to go, too.”

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More than 3,000 innocent people died at the hands of terrorists on Sept. 11, 2001. Watching the war in Iraq unfold on CNN or FOX news didn't deliver the whole story, he said.

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“As far as press, we're not getting it all. There's too much to get,” Merritt said.

Baghdad is very corrupt, he said. Explosives and gunfire were constant. Being in the middle of it all offered a better view of what was happening, Merritt noted.

Whether American or Iraqi, people are injured and crying in pain, he said. Television can't capture the real world.

The Iraqi families just want their children to go to school and their spouses to go to work like everyone else, Merritt said. They fear for their lives from terrorists driven by power and money.

[CollegeDUer]

1. Very plainly speaking the truth in the face of a politicized

campaign about which "party would run the war better."

[karlrschneider]

2. What a fuckin' idiot.

:eyes:

[Bluzmann57]

3. Are you saying that Sgt Merritt is an idiot?

If so, why? He's a soldier and wanted to do what he was trained to do, which is to defend the USA. It isn't his fault that the news channels didn't give anyone the straight story.

[karlrschneider]

4. He was defending the invasion more than defending the USA

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edit: I refer to his quoted remarks, not to how he did his "job"

“You train for it, and you train for war,” Merritt said. “I was angry because of 9-11. When you see everyone go, you want to go, too.”

[The_Casual_Observer]

5. "terrorists driven by power and money"

This is certainly a new & bogus slant. What does power & money mean to a guy in a suicide belt??