Wednesday, September 13, 2006

Time Magazin gets Haditha details wrong

In their haste to condemn the United States ...
John Murtah executes the Marines

This is a now all too familiar pattern with our one party media.

The following "corrections" have been added to the very bottom of Time’s two blockbuster exclusives on Haditha in their current online versions: - Sweetness & Light continued

Our media are no better today than any found in East European communist bloc countries during the Cold War. As an interesting aside, the picture I used to photoshop Murtha is one of the more famous from the Vietnam era.

Nguyen Van Lem was the real name of Captain Bay Lop (died 1 February 1968 in Saigon), a member of the Viet Cong who was summarily executed in Saigon during the Tet Offensive. ... The photograph and footage were broadcast worldwide, galvanizing the anti-war movement; Adams won a 1969 Pulitzer Prize for his photograph.

Lem's widow confirmed that her husband was a member of the Viet Cong [Wikipedia]

Same people.  Same tactics.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

I don't know why, but, in this photo, I'm ALWAYS drawn to the soldier standing standing behind Loan. In the video, a viet lipreader can no doubt read the "oh shit!"

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