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

[smk1 at columbia.edu]

I don't think that I am being misleading in any way.  Emmett
attached an article that obviously supported his own experiences
and he wanted to relate that to his friends on the mailing list. 
Show me where he has used this list for politics at any time prior
to this, and then I might agree with you his intentions were
anything other than friendly.  He didn't need to list the
attributes of the article that he cited, but he did as a matter of
full disclosure.

How can I say this any more clearly, if you believe this was a
political post rather than Emmett relating his own experiences to
friends on the sumo mailing list, and he has alot of them here,
then it is you, the reader, who is not seeing Emmett clearly
because your politics are getting in the way.  And if that is the
case, then just delete the post, but it is out of line to tell
Emmett or anyone else here not to post on such topics.

Sukubidubidu

Quoting "Leigh Solland (on Webmail)" <solland at telusplanet.net>:

> 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
>
>
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