Hey, did you guys know Anna Nicole Smith is dead?
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Oh, you already heard.
What the flying eff is going on with our MSM where they think nothing about spending this much freakin time on a known drug addict playboy centerfold? This is not Marilyn Monroe, who had talent. This is a female with a huge rack who married 90 year old rich guys for their money!
I mean what the hell?
You would hope our MSM would spend this amount of time on one of heroes jumping on a grenade to save his buddies, or maybe even just ONE of our soldiers over in Iraq. But unless they can spin it in such a way to blame Bush they ignore those who are REALLY newsworthy.
Meanwhile Blackfive is trying to gather intelligence to counter the MSM reporting of the surge. You know, the reporting in which they detail how many Americans died but mention nothing about how many we killed or captured.
So here is the deal. I am requesting information about all actions in Baghdad and Al Anbar, specifically how many enemy dead or captured. If all the public hears is 4 more Marines died, they will have no feel for what their lives bought. That is the currency of war, I hate it but it’s reality. Without an enemy body count, we have no way to gauge success. The administration has decided not to release numbers on enemy casualties, but I haven’t.
[…]What I want to do is create an alternate channel of information on the surge, to provide a real look at what the actual circumstances of each engagement are. We can do this by cross-referencing different media sources reporting on actions, checking press releases from involved units, passing on first hand or second, maybe third hand info. Part of intel evaluation and analysis involves rating sources, so if you hear from your cousin whose in Baghdad, that one of the other battalions in his unit got in a scrap, and a guy he knows over there says they whacked 15 tangos, that gets thrown in the overall matrix and is factored in.
Basically they report no facts in which a reader can tell if the operation is a success or not. I’m sure this doesn’t surprise you but anything we can do to counter the silence of our MSM is welcome.
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