Fayetteville Observer: "Truth Takes A Hit As Casualties Mount" (Publisher Discusses Hersh Article)

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The "hometown" newspaper of Fort Bragg, NC...

http://www.fayobserver.com/article?id=265647

Truth takes a hit as casualties mount

Charles Broadwell

I finished reading Seymour Hersh’s latest article in The New Yorker magazine on Friday afternoon from our newspaper offices here in scenic Massey Hill. I wondered how many people at more imposing headquarters about 10 miles away also had read this report about the Abu Ghraib prisoner-abuse scandal and what they thought about it. I wondered about the insider response at Fort Bragg. In the Army these days, all roads lead here, directly or roundabout.

During the Vietnam War, Hersh broke the story about the massacre by U.S. troops at My Lai. Since 9/11, he has pursued the prosecution of the so-called war on terror, cranking out military-sourced articles as a “one-man reporting machine,” as we labeled him in a 2001 headline.

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Gen. John Abizaid, formerly of the 82nd Airborne, does not come across so well in a car-ride episode in Kuwait: “Abizaid turned to Taguba and issued a quiet warning: ‘You and your report will be investigated.’”

The implications of all this are chilling. You think about the troops who have sacrificed for our ideals and values. You think about the breakdowns and abuses that come with a terribly heavy price to pay.

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1. I welcome every member of the press who awakens to our current media atrocities

and the heroes like Hersch who managed to stand tall in the midst of crisis.

I salute their patriotism and for some of them, their (belated) awakening.

:patriot:

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2. Somebody at Bragg

is going to be wincing in the Morning when they read that over their Eggs and Grits.

Cool. :thumbsup:

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3. Broadwell and his editors have been getting emails from me for about 5 years

(many of them DU posts and Will Pitt articles) disclosing all the absurdities, crimes, and immoralites that have been going on, so he has no claim to not knowing that they have been going on or having the paper cover them.

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