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cranston36
11-09-2005, 02:23 PM
Check out what your tax money is paying for when reporters are embedded with your troops.
http://hotzone.yahoo.com/
Kevin Sites has been embedded several times with American forces.
He’s making a living out of it and Yahoo! is paying him for it.

Kevin Sites is walking around with an Iraqi soldier's dog tags. 1. That is illegal. 2. That is confusing for the soldiers and marines forced to work there. 3. That is a spoil of war and he is guilty of looting.

Take a look at Michael Herr's book : 'Dispatches'. Kevin Sites' style is so close to that book about Vietnam that it is offensive.

Yahoo! News seemed to be moving in the right direction until they put Kevin Sites in the field.

He is not a reporter to me. His work seems to be more like interference. He actually called out to a commander in the field during a tactical operation. Do you understand how confusing that can be to the 18 and 19 year old young men wired up to stay alive so that they might be able to come home? He is wearing a dog tag from an enemy soldier as a ‘souvenir’. He had to get hustled out of Iraq before some blew his head off for taking a video of a young marine in a platoon shooting a rebel who had been abandoned the day before by another platoon that hadn’t bothered to mark their location. The video was spread all over the world in a matter of hours.

He must have a death wish. What is he really there for?

Looks like he is writing a book. American soldiers and Marines are getting killed and Kevin Sites is taking a free ride.

Yahoo! News from Kevin Sites? That’s not news.

'Reflections from the Hot Zone? How about hallucinations from the Pot Zone?

Travh20
11-09-2005, 02:34 PM
lol, sounds like a good candidate for IED retrieval duty

Frogger
11-09-2005, 02:50 PM
I read his letter to the Marines trying to explain why he sent that picture to the news pool. Reads like he might just be worried about an IED.

cranston36
11-10-2005, 08:48 AM
I think he's praying to be destroyed. He's an abomination and should not be anywhere near American troops. He is a problem and a morale buster.

How does a guy like that end up getting protected by American soldiers and marines that don't deserve to be stuck there?

How much is that guy costing us per day?

Consider the cost and frightful loss if attacked that fielding a platoon of soldiers has to the United States.

He's a political clown.

At least Michael Herr got burned out and let us know the truth by reporting what he saw and heard and experience. He wasn't fried before he got to Vietnam and he didn't try to dress up the ugliness to line his pockets.