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Article lacked evidence of ambivalence
Saturday, November 7, 2009 7:20 AM PST
On Oct. 19 your paper printed — on Page 20 — an Associated Press Baghdad article entitled "U.S. mission in Iraq ends in ambivalence." The Webster's New World Dictionary defines "ambivalence" as "simultaneous conflicting feelings."
Reading the entire article, I found no evidence of ambivalence at all regarding the ending U.S. Iraqi mission. Searching for this alleged "ambivalence," I found an article revealing only the poignant sweetness of a job remarkably well done, the selfless love of comrades and family, and the grateful and triumphant return of the warriors of the 18th Infantry Regiment.
The only "ambivalence" apparently was in the warped and delusional mind of the unnamed AP author.
Beginning in the late 1960s, I have become painfully aware of manipulative, "yellow" journalism, be it in print or on television. I have no remaining patience for a media agenda without regard for truth. Lodians (and, indeed, all Americans) deserve better.
Franklin O. Bernhoft, Ph. D.
Former Army officer, Col. Patton's Blackhorse Regt., Vietnam, '68-'69
Lodi
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election year wrote on Nov 8, 2009 1:21 PM:
I don't disagree that the US "mission" in Iraq was and is one in which the United States should never have been involved - not to mention the increasing necessity for the US to withdraw from Afghanistan. We cannot and should not, as in Viet Nam, fight another nation's civil wars for them.
Support our troops by getting them out of both Iraq and Afghanistan ASAP! "
danielh wrote on Nov 7, 2009 9:59 AM:
Moreover, you claim association with General Patton's name, but I doubt Patton would have supported this war, or Vietnam, so I am not impressed by your use of his name. "
danielh wrote on Nov 7, 2009 9:57 AM:
Did not former CIA agent Valerie Plame intervene and seize a warhead in Turkey, while it was en-route to Iraq, behind enemy lines, where American foot soldiers could "accidently" discover the warhead, and thus justify the war? "
danielh wrote on Nov 7, 2009 9:54 AM:
Do you know what is the cause for the gulf war syndrome, and just exactly it entails?
If you knew a battle field was irradiated, would you give orders to foot soldiers to march across?
Do you care to address the chemical content of the Kinetic Energy Kill weapon projectile, which is used to kill tanks, and also valuable for reducing America's stockpile of depleted uranium at the same time?
Are you aware of the birth defects of children who look alien in Iraq, as a result from radiation exposure to our reproductive organs?
If there are stringent procedures for safe handling of radioactive projectiles, wouldn't it naturally follow that the battlefield would be radioactive after using these weapons? "
danielh wrote on Nov 7, 2009 9:46 AM:
I don't need to read a newspaper to get my own private opinion on the war, and I don't have any feelings of sweetness for the war. "
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