[sumo] FW: Tide Turns in Ramadi [off-topic]

[Leigh Solland (on Webmail)]

Quoting smk1 at columbia.edu:

> Actually, it is a mailing list, and I think the welfare of posters
> and personal experiences when properly labeled, as they were, are
> to be welcomed.
> 
> Sukubidubidu

I really don't want to do this, but if you insist on saying that Emmett's 
posting was about a "personal experience", you are misleading the list.  The 
attachment to his message was an article from the U.S. Cavalry's "On Point" 
magazine, written by their reporter Andrew Lubin.  It was apparently 
disseminated to Emmett as part of a mailing to "Mini 1 LARs" by a Major Joseph 
Greenlee.  This IS political propaganda, or at the very least, the US 
Military's semi-official point of view on the war.

It is NOT appropriate on this forum, any more than repeating an Al-Jazeera 
account of the dead babies in Iraq, or publishing a description of the 
consequences of spreading radiation via "depleted uranium" ammunition.

Nobody (especially me) has attacked Emmett for doing this, but I feel that this 
is not the place to debate these matters.

So can we please end this now?

Leigh