Maybe things are a little tight right now. Maybe you've been living in a spider hole and have missed the last four days of blogging. Maybe your credit cards were stolen, or ... maybe you haven't found the right motivation? From a soldier in Iraq:
When the little kid who hung out at our C-MOC pointed out the two people who'd paid him to run up and down the street waving pictures of Saddam, those two people were identified as the local Al Jazeera Correspondants by our boss.
Those same two people then later paid people to incite a riot -intended to cause American Soldiers to shoot up civilians- during a demonstration at our gate. We caught wind of this that morning (it had been a planned demonstration) and so we had people out to reinforce the C-Moc. When we got there, we were given cards with modified rules of engagement, stating specifically that there were going to be people trying to get us to fire on the crowd and therefore only the three snipers who were posted on the roofs of the buildings were allowed to fire on anyone in the crowd who might be carrying a weapon. The information was not scuttlebutt or GI-Rumors, it was given to us specifically by our Boss, who was the most likely person in the Sector to know who the two men who paid for this incitement were.
And the two men were identified by our boss as the local Al Jazeera Correspondants.
He's got another post here.
In terms of cost, ideas can be exponentially deadlier than bullets. So why don't we invest in some ideas that can counter this destructive journalism and save lives? Don't wait - act now. You'll feel good, you'll get exclusive insider e-mail updates about progress that you won't see in the Western news, and you'll get nearly a third of your donation back at tax time!
UPDATE: Tony at Oriental Redneck has a cool collection of vintage posters that may inspire you - check 'em out.
(Livejournal links via the Prof)
Just curious, but how hard would it be for the provisional authority to revoke al-Jizz-rear-a's "press credentials" and expel the from the country? Inciting a crowd to riot so they can film isn't even something the New York Times would stoop to, it violates so many journalistic standards. (Michael Moore, maybe, but he's not a journalist.) Why doesn't Paul Bremer just play hardball with their pseudo-terrorist ass?
And while they're at it, we can kick them out of this country, too, just like the NYSE did from their press pool.