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2004-07-04 Iraq-Jordan

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Posted by Dan Darling 2004-07-04 11:36:43 AM|| || Front Page|| [7 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 So TIME is being used to spread terrorist propaganda and undermine the morale of those fighting them. No surprise.

Posted by Seger 2004-07-04 12:26:47 PM|| 2004-07-04 12:26:47 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 accompanied by professional-style editing, graphics and camera work.

Could Al-Jitzz lending their studios to the cause? I wonder if there is any way to trace this back to the production studio....

Posted by CrazyFool 2004-07-04 12:30:54 PM|| 2004-07-04 12:30:54 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 "It does not bode well for the immediate future of Iraqâs fledgling government nor the ultimate exit plans for the 130,000 U.S. troops still here."
TIME consistantly publishes this crap.

Posted by rich woods 2004-07-04 12:32:39 PM|| 2004-07-04 12:32:39 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 It does not bode well for the immediate future of Iraqâs fledgling government nor the ultimate exit plans for the 130,000 U.S. troops still here

Oh fuck right off "Time", they said the same thing about the Nazi's "there ass got kicked" said the same thing about the Commies "there ass got kicked" on and on and on They were the doom and gloomers after 911. "Time" is shit.

It bodes very well for the USA, we have those fuckers right where we want them. They are not over here are they? Those IslamoNazi's are dieing every day are they not? Everyday more and more of those asshole disappear from the planet. They are fighting a war with our military on their turf. Is that not good for the USA? Is that not good for the whole fucking PLANET?!?!? They hate the USA, they know where to find us in there back yard. The problem is they are fighting the greatest most adaptible fucking force the world has ever imagined!!

If "Time" was a little more on the side of the USA just maybe they would feel some shame in what they publish. Doom and gloom...

When they publish something like this, to me, they have become the enemy. the 1st amendment does not travel over sea's. See Time reporter shoot Time reporter. See guy with camera from Time shoot guy with camera from Time see "little sheet head" in car filming shoot "little sheet head" in car filming.

Posted by Long Hair Republican 2004-07-04 12:59:46 PM|| 2004-07-04 12:59:46 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 Ironic that this piece would be placed in the Time edition with Michael Mooreon on the cover.

Posted by Capt America 2004-07-04 2:28:15 PM|| [http://captamerica.blogspot.com/] 2004-07-04 2:28:15 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 Slime magazine is doing psych-ops for Zarqawi, useful idiots.

Posted by Capt America 2004-07-04 2:33:57 PM|| [http://captamerica.blogspot.com/] 2004-07-04 2:33:57 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 would be more damaging if a substantial number of Merkins read Time. They don't, so it's not

Posted by Frank G 2004-07-04 2:46:17 PM|| 2004-07-04 2:46:17 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 Notice how the killers skip Al-Jizz and go right to Time.
When did Time get to be such a rag?

Posted by Jen 2004-07-04 3:25:46 PM|| [http://www.greatestjeneration.com] 2004-07-04 3:25:46 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 Funny that they show that they are essentially a cult.

Time has become a useless rag - a propaganda outlet, not a news magazine.

Posted by OldSpook 2004-07-04 4:47:37 PM|| 2004-07-04 4:47:37 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 1) The tape shows off "Saudis, Algerians, Libyans, Jordanians" - notice a trend? Foreign fighters. American and administration types can denounce foreign fighters until the cows come home, but if they're bragging about it in their own propaganda, it's damned hard to refute. That makes them, by their own admission, invaders and aliens to the country. No wonder the Iraqis hate them.

2)LHR: Time was a conservative Republican rag during WWII. The wife of publisher Henry Luce was a Republican Representative from Connecticut. They hated Roosevelt, but were still hard-war all the same. The magazine has slid left over the decades. It's essentially a more exploitative twin of Newsweek, which was originally a left-centre alternative to Time's right-centre orientation. Time hasn't quite been the same since Ted Turner orchestrated their buy-out by Warner Bros.

3) It's always useful when the enemy informs you which atrocities they're definitely responsible for, and which they don't care to acknowledge. I don't see anything about the anti-Shia bombings - the Ashoura bombings, last year's massive bombing in Najaf, etc. One question - are they trying to dodge the consequences of Zarqawi's anti-Shia bloodthirst, are they not actually responsible, or Time just not interested in al-Tahwid's little "death to the Shia" quirk?

Posted by Mitch H. 2004-07-04 4:54:47 PM|| [http://blogfonte.blogspot.com/] 2004-07-04 4:54:47 PM|| Front Page Top

#11 I agree w/you Frank G. Aside from the well-informed (news freaks) and intellectual folks who post on this website, I don't believe there are too many average folks reading Time.

Posted by Jarhead 2004-07-04 4:58:00 PM|| 2004-07-04 4:58:00 PM|| Front Page Top

#12 JH - I used to subscribe to Time during/right after college 79-86 or so, but the leftys took it too far for my tastes, and when I cancelled, I told them why. Looks like they should've listened - their market share and credibility's at an all-time low

Posted by Frank G 2004-07-04 5:14:13 PM|| 2004-07-04 5:14:13 PM|| Front Page Top

#13 Frank, I'll pick up the occasional time/newsweek/US news at the airport or maybe the PX on base if something looks interesting. Time, imho, had a good piece on Tom Jefferson in the last issue which I found worthwhile. I can handle some lefty slant if the critism is constructive & justified (I'm an independent), usually though, they whine too much for my taste.

Posted by Jarhead 2004-07-04 5:33:27 PM|| 2004-07-04 5:33:27 PM|| Front Page Top

#14 For me, Time was killed by the advent of CSPAN. Back when Colin Powell was on active duty, he gave a speech at the Naval Academy which was carried by CSPAN. A Midshipman asked him what he, a Midshipman, should do if gays are admitted to the military and he disagreed with the policy. Colin Powell said, you should resign if it violates your conscience. I took that statement straight up as advice on a matter of conscience. Not Time magazine. They turned that statement into a blurb to the effect that Colin Powell intended to resign if gays were admitted to the military. Huh? I realized then they were in the contoversy manufacturing business and were playing fast and loose with the truth. I cancelled my subscription. They used to be able to get away with that. Not anymore. CSPAN and the internet provided us with the means to directly access events such that we could fact check them. Big media still has not figured this out. Little Brother is watching. Long live distributed broadcasting.

Posted by Zpaz 2004-07-04 9:39:11 PM|| 2004-07-04 9:39:11 PM|| Front Page Top

#15 Good point Zpaz, one more reason why competition in capitalism and an open society is a beautiful thing. You can always find someone who will give you the straight story, as well as hold those (as in Time's case) accountable who don't for their actions by canceling your subscription.

Posted by Jarhead 2004-07-04 9:55:32 PM|| 2004-07-04 9:55:32 PM|| Front Page Top

#16 that link isnt work.

Posted by muck4doo 2004-07-04 10:14:55 PM|| [http://meatismurder.blogspot.com/] 2004-07-04 10:14:55 PM|| Front Page Top

#17 not for me either,mucky.

Posted by Raptor 2004-07-04 11:10:07 PM|| 2004-07-04 11:10:07 PM|| Front Page Top

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