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By Tom Pain
Oct. 14, 2006 In an obvious ploy to negatively influence public opinion about the war in Iraq, an insignificant British civil servant has twisted the facts of the death of journalist Terry Lloyd to imply American soldiers acted intentionally to murder him. As he hoped, and as the most simpleminded idiot could predict, liberal snot rags have picked up the story and are flooding the media with his lies. The journalist, two cameramen, and the interpreter were caught in crossfire between American troops and insurgents at the beginning of the war. The interpreter was killed and Lloyd wounded by the insurgents. One cameraman survived the attack and the other is still missing years later. Although the stories I’ve read do not state specifically, I think we can assume that the insurgents removed the cameraman’s body from the scene. That, in turn, would suggest how close the news team was to the action. After the initial exchange of fire, an unidentified person drove up and loaded Lloyd into his minibus and started to drive away. American soldiers opened fire on the minibus and Lloyd was hit a second time, this bullet causing his death. A low-life punk, “Assistant Deputy” Coroner Andrew Walker, in Oxfordshire, England, now has the audacity to pass judgment on the intent of our soldiers from thousands of miles away and after more than three years since the events. With only the capability of determining which of the two bullets to hit Lloyd actually caused his death, Walker has chosen to make himself judge and jury in the court of public opinion by exceeding the scope of his responsibility and the possible conclusions of the evidence. That our soldiers could have concluded that the minibus was driven by insurgents intent on capturing Lloyd, just as the cameraman was carried away, seems obvious and, in fact, logical. Whether our soldiers even knew the journalists were there has not been specified in the reports, such that the minibus would have appeared to be rescuing part of the insurgent forces. A less fortunate scenario, but one that still assigns no guilt to our soldiers, is that a mistake in judgment was made in the confusion of battle. Instead of assuming these very plausible and much more likely explanations of the events, this backwater boob instead takes it upon himself to declare the killing “unlawful,” and implies that our soldiers intentionally killed Lloyd saying, “There is no doubt that the minibus presented no threat to the American forces. There is no doubt it was an unlawful act of fire upon the minibus." Walker does not cite a motive, however his stupidity riled Lloyd’s grieving widow. Or, if we want to join Walker in the invention of “conspiracy theories,” we might suggest that an attorney instigated this entire publicity in an attempt to extort money from the US because…from the CNN story: In “a statement read by an attorney for Lloyd's widow, Lynn, said…"The evidence of how Terry Lloyd was unlawfully killed has shown that this was not, I wish to stress, a friendly fire blue on blue incident or a crossfire incident. It was a despicable, deliberate, vengeful act, particularly as it came many minutes after the end of the initial exchanges in which Mr. Lloyd had been hit by an Iraqi bullet. “Her (or the attorney’s?) statement said, "U.S. forces appeared to have allowed their soldiers to behave like trigger-happy cowboys in an area in which there were civilians traveling on a highway, both Iraqi and European." Sounds more like a case of the British news agency allowing its journalist to get too close to a war zone. To believe, instead, that American soldiers are just running around killing people, when in fact, they had just been fired upon moments before, is crazy. I have do doubt that our soldiers are innocent and do not expect to see any further escalation of these charges. However, that result will never receive the publicity these false accusations have. It’s called media bias and, as always, it is liberal bias. ------------ About the author Tom Pain: Just an American boy with so much common sense, it hurts. Email: thomas.pain@hughes.net Comment on this article here! ------------ All articles are EXCLUSIVE to Useless-Knowledge.com. Please link to this article rather than copying and pasting it onto your site (which would be unauthorized and illegal). |
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