arch/ive/ief (2000 - 2005)

Onlangs verscheen er een artikel in ABC-news waarin stond dat:

"The sergeant at the 2nd Battle Combat Team Headquarters pulled me aside in the corridor. "I've got my own 'Most Wanted' list," he told me. "The aces in my deck are Paul Bremer, Donald Rumsfeld, George Bush and Paul Wolfowitz," he said."
http://archive.indymedia.be/news/2003/07/70630.php

Dan kwam er kritiek:

"The coalition forces commander – General Abizaid – declared that American troops must silence their criticism concerning the President and Defense Secretary"
http://www.antiwar.com/orig/shutup.html

Dan werden ze bedreigd met het verliezen van hun job:

""It was the end of the world," said one officer Thursday. "It went all the way up to President Bush and back down again on top of us. At least six of us here will lose our careers."

First lesson for the troops, it seemed: Don't ever talk to the media "on the record" -- that is, with your name attached -- unless you're giving the sort of chin-forward, everything's-great message the Pentagon loves to hear.
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2003/07/18/MN248299.DTL

En nu wordt een "beschadingings-campagne" gevoerd tegen de journalist.

Dat hij homo is en één van de weinige journalisten is in de States die kritiek durft uiten op de Bush-junta, zal er wel iets mee te maken hebben.

"A Canadian-born journalist for ABC News is the target of a smear campaign after he broadcast a report about the plummeting morale among U.S. soldiers serving in Iraq."

http://www.globeandmail.ca/servlet/story/RTGAM.20030718.ukoff0719/BNStory/National/