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http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2004/10/3/230440.shtml

Sunday, Oct. 3, 2004 11:03 p.m. EDT
Rep. Garrett: Troops in Iraq Angry at Media Coverage

U.S. soldiers in Iraq are growing increasingly angry over distorted coverage of their mission in Western press accounts, a New Jersey congressman who recently traveled to Baghdad said Saturday.

"Every time we met with soldiers, men and women ... they would always bring up the frustration level; the frustration with CNN, BBC and other broadcasting outlets," Scott Garrett, R-N.J., told WABC Radio's Monica Crowley.

"The first thing they would say," said Garrett, "is 'How come all the good stuff we're doing is not being broadcast back at home?'"
"And they were just angry about it," he added.

Garrett, who spent a week in Iraq last month, said that despite the violence of recent weeks, "when you talk to the troops, when you see what's really happening on the ground over there, you realize that we are moving ahead, that we are making progress."

He noted, for instance, that the Abu Ghraib prison - which for the American press has become symbolic of a mission gone off the tracks - now houses a hospital as well as detention cells.

"In that hospital, they not only treat American soldiers," said Garrett, "but Iraqi children who have been wounded in all these terrorist attacks."

[Ed McDowell]

It's very easy why all they hear is bad news. Blame the DNC, Kerry, ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN and all the other commies that want to relive Vietnam. Kerry never got to finish Vietanm like he wanted to. He wanted to come back a hero and be paraded around like the new JFK. He is a communist, he is a traitor and he deserves only one thing, a firing squad.

[ArmyMedicsMom]

Maybe we could start a grass roots effort and put publish a newsletter with news from the Soldiers in Iraq. Even a one or 2 page letter. Something we could compile here together and print off and distribute thru out the towns we live in.