Dinosaur Media Jihad Continues Against U.S. Military Members

The New York Times latest slam at the troops is directed at the ones they claim to care about the most, the ones returning home from war in which their reporting tries to imply that the murder rate amongst returning soldiers is extraordinarily high and they are just killing monsters. The claim to do this in the name of getting the soldiers help which all Americans including this one want them to get and receive at all costs. But a quick read between the lines reveals that's not their motivation here and it shows through.

They couch this theory in a lengthy, but yet short version of three or four very long, involved and complicated stories of those few sadly tortured soldiers that are most definitely adversely effected by their deployments, and then return here to a much more civil society still retaining those acceptable life saving skills they needed and used to stay alive in certain war situations, particularly in counterinsurgency conflicts as this war against terror has transformed into in Iraq and Afghanistan, unable to put those skills back in the box per say when they are about to be inappropriately used.

Anyone can see and understand that this must be extraordinarily tough on these men and women, adjusting from killing terrorists one day in Iraq and then dealing with the shouts and taunts of "baby killer" and the likes from some left wingtard back home, as was the case in one of their featured soldiers, an incident of murder involving a man named Seth Strasburg who killed another young man after a tense and demeaning encounter a New Years party where the victim called him a hired killer which unleashed his seemingly inappropriate response.

Doesn't that sound familiar, the uncaring stupidity filled remark made by some empty headed imbecile to a returning soldier who just spent a year of his life defending this asshole's right to speak his mind?

Why not address that angle of the story? Because it's the New York Times, that's why. It's always the soldier and the military, not the taunts and harassment he received from anti war loudmouth as the catalyst of the tragic encounter or the countless other reasons soldiers may or may not commit crimes of violence when returning home to a country half filled with assholes that can't stand soldiers and the military in the first place, and show it any chance they get.

And of coarse it didn't take long for the statistical side of their reporting to be debunked, and that it was by Move America Forward, the Melanie Morgan Web offering and her group that just returned from Iraq doing it's own version of Iraq reporting, seemingly much more of the truthful variety than the fiction coming out of the New York Times and their most of the time American Military and Country hating newsroom.

photo montage from the new york times

New York Times ‘Killer Vet’ Story
Exposed as Erroneous by Pro-Troop Group

Move America Forward: "SACRAMENTO- Move America Forward (website: www.MoveAmericaForward.org), the nation’s largest grassroots pro-troop organization, today announced that after vetting the numbers cited by The New York Times in their Sunday, January 13, 2008 story, “Across America, Deadly Echoes of Foreign Battles,” it became clear that the Times had engaged in demonstrably erroneous and false reporting.

It took seven New York Times researchers to find 121 cases in which veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan committed a killing in the United States, or were charged with one, upon returning home to this country.

The Times made the false conclusion that: “Taken together, they paint the patchwork of a quiet phenomenon, tracing a cross-country trail of death and heartbreak.”

The Times documentation of 121 potential killings out of more than 1.5 million veterans of Operation Iraqi Freedom (Iraq) and Operation Enduring Freedom (Afghanistan), divided by 6 years of conflict results in a murder rate of just 1.34 incidents per 100,000 veterans per year.***

That murder rate is far lower than the murder rate for the general population, demonstrating that the experiences of military service – including having served in Iraq and Afghanistan – actually made it less likely for returning veterans to commit murder once they returned home, than the general population." continued

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