CNN on Battle of Fallujah - The Anvil of God?

Here's what was said about the Battle of Fallujah on Dailykos at the time.

No civilian deaths in Fallujah

Did anyone see CNN's piece on the Battle of Fallujah last night?

It was called The Anvil of God.  This is glaring propaganda and to
borrow from Thomas Paine, an insult to God.  There is no evidense that
God had anything to do with.

It said that there was "no evidense" for the claims of
civilian casualties.  A more accurate statement would be
that reports of civilian casualties were repressed, hidden,
dismissed, ignored and denied by US authorities.

Full of glittering generalities, euphemisms, unwarranted extrapolation and
the illogic of the "we must destroy the village in order to save it" ilk,
this piece by CNN was propaganda that would make the Nazis cheer.

It was all about the heroism of our soldiers and the evil of
the terrorists in Fallujah. All glittering generalities. The story begins for CNN with the gruesome murder of the 4 contractors in Iraq.
The story began way before that for Fallujah.
There was the 1920 resistance there against
the British, the bombing of a market in Fallujah during the first
Gulf War, the killing of 15 demonstrators in April 2003 as they
demanded that US forces get out of their children's schoolhouse.
there was the rounding up of young men and sending them to Abu Graib,
there was the unprovoked bombing and invasion of Iraq in the first place.

The people of Fallujah, except for young males who could be
resistance fighters were forced to evacuate their city and go
to camps, chicken coops in the countryside, wherever - they were
made homeless.

There city was destroyed by our bombing - water and electrical power
have still not been restored -

The people left in the city were killed, thousands of people that
no one bothered to count, women, children, elderly along with
the suspect young males.

About 40 US soldiers were killed.

Fallujah was destroyed.

CNN has glorified and romanticized this horror and will
continue to help lead our country into disasterous wars
with it's slick propaganda.

My heart goes out to all those who suffer under the
current failed leadership of our nation and the failed
stewardship of its citizens in the media.

•  Since 40 of our troops returned in body-bags

  and their killers are now eating food, wearing clothes, bearing arms, and receiving payments from our tax dollars ...

  Who does CNN say won?

  by Clem Yeobright on Sat Sep 01, 2007 at 02:26:09 PM PDT

•  dogs ate the corpses?

  I couldn't watch it, what was going on with them, some kind of back room deal to seduce young people into joining up? Was this some kind of propaganda meant to avoid the draft?  Who produced this 'show,' does anyone know?  And those fighters are now sold as our allies against bin Laden?  

  by anna shane on Sat Sep 01, 2007 at 02:32:10 PM PDT

•  Under the selective lens of CNN

  The battle was a huge success!

  I will look forward to reading comments
  here later - I have to go out for a few
  hours.

  by hobo on Sat Sep 01, 2007 at 02:32:46 PM PDT

•  According to this

  Amanda Townsend produced it

  Amanda Townsend Producer CNN - Anderson Cooper 360

  by hobo on Sat Sep 01, 2007 at 02:39:55 PM PDT

•  Democracy Now had a soldier on that stated

  They used white phosporous as a weapon there. It was his job to check the bodies of the dead for identity and record. There were four teams doing this and his team checked 500 people. Many were women and children. They were burned beyond recognition. At the end of the program he cried as he tried to tell the Iraqis how sorry he was. I don't remember the name but I will never forget the program. This is just bullshit if they think they can whitewash what hapened there. It was a crime.

  by Owllwoman on Sat Sep 01, 2007 at 02:42:14 PM PDT

  •  We invaded Iraq under manipulated and fraudulent

    unintelligence from the Bush Administration who then perpetrated a genocide upon the innocent Iraqi citizenry who had nothing to do with attacking our Country and who were themselves victims of tyranny. A wrongful and disproportionate response for their hedonistic purpose of privatizing (stealing) Iraqi oil while proliferating contractors like Halliburton, KBR, and Buchtel.

    It's time for Congress to reconcile themselves to the American people and for the American people to reconcile themselves to the World.

    "There are many who think that they are righteous because they say yes to God, but they do not do his will."

    by Fallon on Sat Sep 01, 2007 at 03:12:12 PM PDT

•  The Anvil of God reminds me...

  ...Of some film footage that I saw on You Tube...of White Phosphorus clouds moving arcoss the skyline of Fallujah, raining down fire. Like Anvil clouds in the S.W. that dump inches of hailstones in the desert...

  http://www.youtube.com/...

  The results of which can be seen here...

  http://www.youtube.com/...

  by geurilladem on Sat Sep 01, 2007 at 02:46:52 PM PDT

•  Great article on 8/28:

  Fallujah Finds a False Peace

     Fallujah, 60km west of Baghdad, produced some of the strongest resistance yet to U.S. forces and their Iraqi collaborators. These forces led two severe assaults on the city, in April and November of 2004.

  ***Three-quarters of the city was destroyed,  ***massive numbers of people were killed.       ***There has been little by way of reconstruction.

  The city sees no more of the kind of resistance attacks of old, and no more of the 2004 kind of crackdown.

  My emphasis, of course. Article tells about how journalists have been shut up.

  by Gorette on Sat Sep 01, 2007 at 02:51:06 PM PDT

•  CNN trying to recapture

  the magic days after the invasion of Iraq, where every eye was glued on the screen and the propaganda freely flowed like honey from the lips of all their correspondents. And everybody was happy and united behind Dear Leader.  They yearn for those days. They pine for those days. Any chance they get to try to recapture them is, for them, a golden opportunity to recapture the viewers they lost to fox and to Jon Stewart.  I don't think it's a winning strategy.

  by dougymi on Sat Sep 01, 2007 at 03:15:06 PM PDT

  •  Ah, they have

    Iran to look forward to!

    by luckylizard on Sat Sep 01, 2007 at 04:39:29 PM PDT

    •  yah.. but I can't see the ratings being so high

      Iraq was after 9-11 and a good percentage of people thought that we were going after saddam because of revenge and the WMD bushit.  People in this country are tired of war. There's no way the ratings will be so high for the Iran debacle if it comes. Along with the fact that we won't have seats like we did with the "shock and awe" bs. Iran hasn't given the US media the front seats that saddam did and there won't be exciting scenes of walt rogers and greg kelley riding a tank.  

      One can hope that fox will name o'reilly as it's Qom correspondent and we'll get to see him ambush some mullahs and confront them about their religion being anti-american and then we'll get to see the subsequent stoning, but somehow I doubt that. It would get good ratings though.  Something to think about, Roger Ailes, if you're reading this!!  Think of the Ratings if you sent both o'reilly and hannity!  Maybe john gibson and cavuto as sidekicks!

      by dougymi on Sat Sep 01, 2007 at 05:29:50 PM PDT

      •  I never dis-count

        the publicity machines nor the gullibility of enough of the American people.  It's sad and cynical, but some people are just too willing to swallow things that are well "packaged."  It won't be just Faux that will be beating the drums.  All the networks will do it.  If people flip through the channels and see the same kind of b.s. everywhere, they will begin to believe it.  I hate it, but it's a fact.  I never, ever, thought I would live long enough to see my country or my countrymen do this kind of thing!  It's just shameful..

        by luckylizard on Sat Sep 01, 2007 at 05:56:08 PM PDT

•  Shame on CNN!

  Like the rest of the MSM they have become nothing more than a propaganda organ of the most corrupt and sinister government the United States has ever known.  May they all rot in hell!

  Iraq Moratorium

  by One Pissed Off Liberal on Sat Sep 01, 2007 at 03:17:04 PM PDT

•  SOT - keep you eyes on Basra now that

  Britian is pulling their forces. Report I heard the other day on NPR is that more chaos is occurring as troops withdraw and that the 500 or so troops left mostly stay in their quarters unless there is a major threat. Supply convoys are open targets.

  http://www.npr.org/...

  http://www.npr.org/...

  by auapplemac on Sat Sep 01, 2007 at 05:05:48 PM PDT