I think our cause is just, and we don't need propaganda to advance it. We MUST admit when we're wrong, and acknowledge when we've been hoodwinked, if we are to ever get anywhere.
I'm not sure if we are able to say the story is false yet.
The snopes take on this account is that it didn't happen because they searched CNN and found only one filed report from Savidge on that date, and the information in
that report is unrelated to what happened in the e-mail account.
Snopes then asked CNN to confirm or deny that Savidge filed the report. CNN said that he did not.
The problem (and it is a huge one) is that the e-mail story isn't about a written report/article like the one referenced in Snopes. The e-mail clearly describes a
video clip. In a news cycle running 24/7 I'm sure that there is no one person that is aware of all of the video clips,
and their exact content, that have played on CNN. Nor do I believe that an organization like the Clinton News Network would archive a video clip on their website that didn't contain the words failure, quagmire, stalemate, American defeat, babykillers, etc...
When the smoke clears, and Savidge is un-embedded from his unit, and there is time to ask him, you can bet the ranch that smarmy, America-hating, pinko urinalists will be lined up 3-4 city blocks deep to ask him to confirm or deny the story.
Khornet has it right. If it is false, it's wrong to support it. It rang true to me because the people that I served with could sometimes be puerile, and even a little bit pathetic, but when the chips were down, they would follow you into hell if that is what duty called for. Lots of folks that never served think that "we have some mighty fine young people serving right now." When the fact is that the young people that aren't "mighty fine" can be counted on one hand per division.
They say things like:
You can thank the anti-war movement for 99% of this care being taken to prevent civilian deaths.
because they wish to ignore the fact that people in our military seek to find ways to destroy only the enemies means to fight. Greater precision = greater ability to save one's own ***, and one's time spent on the battlefield.
As pointed out in another thread, the only thing that the anti-war movement can be credited with is that it made the war certain, and it causes the fighting (on the part of the Iraqis) to continue.
Saddam merely needed to convince his people that only Bush wanted him to go, and that the rest of America is lining the streets in an effort to topple Bush. The Iraqis know that they would only ever be in the streets with effigies of their maximum leader if they were planning to, or in fact
had toppled Hussien already. As such, the only thing the anti-war effort can be credited with, is to cause those poor delusional bastards to keep up the fight until America crumbles. America is never going to crumble. The Iraqis fight in vain. What a pathetic waste. :banghead: