It’s hard to be liberal.
The leftist Canadian state-run news media, the CBC, again falls over itself trying to make a story sound, well, different than it actually was, it seems to me.
This is how the story starts:
Officials in an eastern Afghanistan village said that eight people killed in raid by U.S. and Afghan forces early Thursday were not al-Qaeda operatives.
Well then. They must be innocent villagers. And the geniuses at the CBC got what they wanted—that first stinky-sounding paragraph. That way, it looks real good on the front page of their taxpayer-paid state-run web site. Like this (and note that this verbiage is not in the story itself, it’s just how the CBC geniuses decided to set up the story for you all}:
But read the actual story, as paid for by taxpayers:
The U.S. military said in a statement that seven of eight people killed in a compound in Asmar village, Kunar province were linked to al-Qaeda. The eighth was a child.
Kunar is a volatile region bordering Pakistan.
Afghan police denied the claim, saying the victims were local families who had gathered to resolve a dispute with the help of village elders.
So who to believe? Well not the Americans—duh! it’s got to be the Afghan police.
Then suddenly this gratuitous plug for the all the Canadian pacifists and liberals who think wars should be death-free zones, unlike their abortions.
More than 1,000 people, mostly militants, have died in the last three months in Afghanistan in the worst spate of violence the country has seen since late 2001 when U.S.-led forces ousted the Taliban regime.
Then some actual facts which apparently the Afghan police failed to see, as did the aforementioned, un-named, mysterious “Officials in an eastern Afghanistan village” at the top of the story:
The U.S. military said it launched the raid after people inside the compound opened fire on U.S. and Afghan forces.
“Afghan and coalition forces came under direct fire when approaching the compound and defended themselves with return fire,” the U.S. statement said.
“All of the men killed were engaging Afghan and coalition forces with hostile fire.”
Soldiers also seized multiple weapons, ammunition and grenades, the U.S. statement said.
But see they weren’t “al-Qaeda”, so the Americans are child-murderers. See how that works?
Possible new marketing slogan for the state-run CBC’s Fall 2006 viewing schedule: “Watch state-run media! We’re not al-Qaeda!”
The rest of the story continues on what I think is their real agenda, and further laments on old news about deaths in Afghanistan and the Canadian soldiers who have died there, simply to serve as the liberal-left’s constant reminder to utter morons (their target audience) that people die in wars. But as usual, they accidentally fail to similarly constantly remind the viewer and reader that the global war on terror was started by terrorists, not by Americans in “late 2001 when U.S.-led forces ousted the Taliban regime,” as they’d love you to believe.
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