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2004-05-27 Iraq-Jordan

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Posted by Mike Sylwester 2004-05-27 5:25:33 AM|| || Front Page|| [11128 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 I see this as a robust interogation that resulted in no permanent harm. He was roughed up a bit and an attempt was made to scare him with the pistol. As I have pointed about before such lack of seriousness would get him fired from any Arab police force.

Posted by Phil B 2004-05-27 9:51:20 AM|| 2004-05-27 9:51:20 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 This is from NY Times (that bastion of truch and unbalanced reporting -- now where is my medication?).

Of course they print only Mr. Hamoodi's account and take his statements as gospel. No fact checking with anyone else who might have been there.

I guess with the NY Times anything is ok as long as it smears a honorable U.S. Soldier (Or Bush...).

Posted by CrazyFool 2004-05-27 9:54:13 AM|| 2004-05-27 9:54:13 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 CrazyFool, I cut quite a bit out of the article for this posting. If you read the entire article, you would not characterize it as a smear of Colonel West.

Posted by Mike Sylwester 2004-05-27 10:13:15 AM|| 2004-05-27 10:13:15 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 But wasn't that your intent, Mike? Isn't that why you edited out anything that defends Colonel West?

Posted by Robert Crawford 2004-05-27 10:45:42 AM|| [http://www.kloognome.com] 2004-05-27 10:45:42 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 It's a long article, Robert, and so I cut a lot out. Every deletion is marked by elipses for your convenience. If you think something should be added here, then paste it into a comment.

I did not intend for my selections to present Col West in a bad light. I intended to present information that was new to people already familiar with the story as it was reported back when it was a current event.

Posted by Mike Sylwester 2004-05-27 10:55:35 AM|| 2004-05-27 10:55:35 AM|| Front Page Top

#6 I dunno, Mike...in that you didn't make any comments, what you chose to post serves as the (editorial) commentary really.
(Take it from me, I blog and I do this everyday.)

Posted by Jen 2004-05-27 11:00:16 AM|| [http://www.greatestjeneration.com] 2004-05-27 11:00:16 AM|| Front Page Top

#7 Oddly, Mike, I don't believe you. Maybe because you did the same thing with another story.

*shrug*

Posted by Robert Crawford 2004-05-27 11:02:30 AM|| [http://www.kloognome.com] 2004-05-27 11:02:30 AM|| Front Page Top

#8 Mr. Hamoodi climbed into the back of their open Humvee, he said, and the vehicle soon jerked off the road.

For some reason, I inhaled a tiny bit of coffee when I read this. :)

Posted by Bomb-a-rama 2004-05-27 11:12:40 AM|| 2004-05-27 11:12:40 AM|| Front Page Top

#9 Robert, read my #3.

Posted by Mike Sylwester 2004-05-27 11:13:25 AM|| 2004-05-27 11:13:25 AM|| Front Page Top

#10 I'm glad to see he kept his retirement. He did the right thing and broke the rules. Now he's been punished for it and can get on with his life. More people are going to face choices like this before the War is over.

Posted by Mr. Davis 2004-05-27 12:28:34 PM|| 2004-05-27 12:28:34 PM|| Front Page Top

#11 I get the NYT, mostly for the crosswords. But I have to laugh the other day when I discovered that even the resturant critic, Amanda Hesser, is being replaced by Frank Bruni (he wrote a pretty good book about the Bush presidential campaign) the current bureau chief in Rome. It seems Hesser (stop drinking your coffee and turn suprise meter on) gave a NYC resturant 3 stars in one review but failed to point out it was owned by a guy (chef) who gave her a 5 star reveiw/blurb for her recently published cook book. I mean, when you can't even divulge your bias in resturant reviews, how the hell can you expect anyone with any sense to read your other articles without leaning to the left as you read them?

Posted by Jack is Back! 2004-05-27 12:54:09 PM|| 2004-05-27 12:54:09 PM|| Front Page Top

#12 Mike, I stand corrected and apologize. I should have read the entire (long....) article.

Posted by CrazyFool 2004-05-27 1:27:03 PM|| 2004-05-27 1:27:03 PM|| Front Page Top

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