From: "Glenn Meadows" 

Yea, it would be like a foreign news organization coming to the US, and
focusing their attention visually and reporting wise on the Bronx, and/or
South L.A., showing gangs on every corner, and representing this as what
the US has become.

--
Glenn M.


"Mark"  wrote in message
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> Yes, I've been reading that kind of stuff for a long time. I understand
that
> "good news" doesn't sell and I understood that it was
advantageous to make
> things look bad to hurt Bush, but, as I've said before, I had really been
> hopeful that the news from the MSM would even out now that our election is
> past and there's no ulterior motive to keep it bad. I was wrong.
>
> "Glenn Meadows"  wrote in message
> news:41a25f08$1{at}w3.nls.net...
> > Interesting.
> >
> > There was an interesting caller on Talk Radio last week, an Nashville
> > resident who is an Iraqi immigrant, now a US citizen.  He had just come
> > back
> > from visiting relative in Iraq, and called to discuss the distorted view
> > he
> > sees on the network/TV/Print news here in the US (and probably the world
> > as
> > well).  The one key point he made, is that the visible news footage we
see
> > here, showing blown out buildings and such is SO selective.  He said
that
> > he
> > visited several sites he recognized from News footage, to see how bad it
> > was, and said that on either side of the building that was shown, there
is
> > massive NEW construction going on, new homes going up, schools being
> > rebuilt, and such.
> >
> > His point is that from the media news, you would think that every place
is
> > in total disarray, while the reality was that during his 3 weeks there,
> > the
> > destruction was very limited in the vast majority of the areas.  Where
> > heavy
> > fighting is/was going on, more destroyed, but the vast vast majority,
> > major
> > improvements were underway.
> >
> > As a US citizen, he was very disgusted with the selective vision that
the
> > US
> > (and probably the world) is getting of what else is going on.  Everyone
> > from
> > the area he is from were far better off, and very grateful for the US
> > "intervention" (his words).
> >
> > --
> > Glenn M.
> >
> >
> > "jeff"  wrote in message
> > news:41a25713$1{at}w3.nls.net...
> >> ... with the other guys cash (Go read it all):
> >>
> >> http://2slick.blogspot.com/2004/11/whats-next-for-fallujah.html
> >>
> >>
> >> "Here's how it worked. About one week after we (the
101st) arrived in
> >> Mosul (approx. May 8th), every major subordinate command in the 101st
> >> (including mine, of course) received an order to report to Finance
> >> Headquarters, draw $10,000 US cash (seized assets recovered from the
old
> >> regime) and go out and spend it. There were rules and guidelines- no
> >> single purchase over the amount of $2,000. Any expenditure must benefit
> >> the Iraqi people only, and may not result in any kind benefit to
> >> Coalition Forces whatsoever. No spending on entertainment for the
> >> Iraqis. Other than that, it was pretty much go out there and spend. I
> >> was selected to be my brigade's project manager because of my
experience
> >> handling budgets and my history of successfuly dealing with Iraqis.
> >>
> >> I first went to a Civil Affairs guy who lived in the tent next to mine,
> >> and asked him if he had any good tips. He told me that the University
> >> had been severely looted, and that they could use some help with ADP
> >> products (monitors, disk drives, etc.). We went to the University,
> >> worked out the arrangements, made some connections, and delivered the
> >> products the next day. The purchase was simple- we went to a computer
> >> store across the street from the university, worked out a deal, and had
> >> them deliver the goods at the agreed time and place, at which time we
> >> paid them. We repeated this often. After our first purchase for the
> >> university we still had $8,000, so we stopped at a primary school and
> >> asked them how we could be of assistance. They were very happy to see
> >> us, and we communicated through our interpreter. We worked out a deal
to
> >> get them school supplies, new school desks, chalkboards, etc.
> >>
> >> When our $10,000 ran out, we drew more and repeated the process. Every
> >> other major subordinate command in the 101st did the same thing we did.
> >> This continued for about 3 weeks.
> >>
> >> Once it became obvious that this operation was working, Division
> >> Headquarters decided to step things up. We were soon authorized to draw
> >> $250,000 at a time (usually about one draw every two weeks- and the
> >> maximum withdrawal amount continued to grow), and spend up to $10,000
on
> >> a single purchase (more if we obtained the CG's approval).
> >>
> >> 
> >>
> >>
> >> When it was all over, I had spent over $2.7 million, mostly on the
> >> University. I'm told that other Division's throughout Iraq followed our
> >> model, since we had so much success with it. As far as I know, CERP is
> >> still ongoing."
> >
> >
>
>

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