The most disturbing part of this Newsday article is not the way they fawn over Cindy Sheehan-lite, Adele Welte, or that they seem to lift parts of her story word-for-word from Code Pink's website. The real disturbing part of this story is that they don't question when Mrs. Welte mentions her 'humanitarian project' of helping medical personel 'sneak across the border' from Jordan into Iraq. Sneak across the border? As in, the Iraqi government doesn't want us there helping the terrorists freedom-fighters, so we have to sneak in.

Why is Newsday's reporting so anti-American? Getting both sides of the story does not qualify as non-partisan reporting. Parties do not go to war, nations do. The nation is at war.

Reporting the other side is reporting the enemy's side. Just because the enemy happens to have domestic allies does not make the story any less sympathetic to the enemy. When you let the assumptions of the enemy go unchallenged you have bought into their world view.

For instance, imagine a war protester during WWII repeating Germany's justification for aggression: Germany had to invade Poland to protect Germans suffering under the boot of Polish occupation in Danzig and the Polish corridor.

Any reporter that didn't blink twice at that statement has bought into a core assumption of the enemy.

Another example. What if a New York newspaper during WWII had let a former member of the German-American Bund--the pro-Nazi front--repeat what he had heard from German citizens about the brutality of the Polish troops on Germans in Danzig? The facts which were in turn learned from Joseph Geobels propaganda machine in the German press?

For instance, Adele Welte says:

Their [her Jordanian friends]accounts of some American soldiers' brutality haunted her.

What is it that drives people to believe the very worst about their own country and yet be so gullible as to believe the very best about our enemies?

I'm sorry. I feel nothing but contempt for Mrs. Welte and those who use their personal stories to attack the United States of America and our fighting men and women abroad. She is a member of the fifth column in the United States no different than the handful of German-Americans who wished our defeat in WWII. She is a traitor.

Can you imagine the media during the 1940s acutually interviewing a member of the German-American Bund who had lost a son in Pearl Harbor and letting them get away with this? Moreover, can you imagine that if any such interview was done that the newspaper article would not have been sprinkled with phrases like traitor, betrayal, Quisling, and Benedict Arnold?

There were people like Cindy Sheehan and Adele Welte around during WWII. Only, they were in jail.

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1 I would not use Newsday to wipe my ass.

Posted by: The Man at September 09, 2005 11:43 AM (EDlAL)

2 Oh the poor litte insurgents got kicked in the teeth by American boots. What a shame. These people need to read Jawa so they can see what the enemy is really like.

Posted by: Howie at September 09, 2005 11:52 AM (D3+20)

3 They are disgusting, but so are those who egg them on. During the Viietnam War, we began to turn a blind eye to those giving aid and comfort to the enemy. This seems to have started a trend which needs to be reversed.

Posted by: miriam at September 09, 2005 01:30 PM (Nghx9)

4 If things were reversed, Adele Welte and her kind would have their throats slit on video and broadcast all over the internet.

Posted by: Don Miguel at September 09, 2005 02:40 PM (+KixN)

5 Does useful idiot ring a bell? And I mean IDIOT!

Posted by: jesusland joe at September 09, 2005 03:30 PM (q9AWQ)

6 Mirroriam - DSM and millions more do not give aid and comfort to Bush, enemy of the American people.

Posted by: Downing Street Memo at September 10, 2005 01:29 AM (TAhhF)

7 I would,nt use this rag to line a birds cage with its not worth recycling ether

Posted by: sandpiper at September 10, 2005 02:53 PM (slksM)

8 Hi, I linked to this yesterday, but Haloscan isn't pining. Thanks

Posted by: NYgirl at September 11, 2005 02:31 PM (JEAUq)

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