{"id":417,"date":"2003-04-06T04:25:24","date_gmt":"2003-04-06T09:25:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/burgwinkel.com\/blog\/?p=417"},"modified":"2003-04-06T04:25:24","modified_gmt":"2003-04-06T09:25:24","slug":"strange-embed-fellows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/burgwinkel.com\/blog\/?p=417","title":{"rendered":"strange embed-fellows"},"content":{"rendered":"

A little bit of truth slipped out recently, despite Donald Rumsfeld’s omnipotent micro-management.  The whitewashing effort, well underway for days, helps identify for us those few news outlets which still hold the truth in high regard, and reveals the rest as cowardly apologists for thugs.  <\/p>\n

“‘Fire a warning shot,’ he [U.S. Army Capt. Ronny Johnson] ordered as the vehicle kept coming. Then, with increasing urgency, he told the platoon to shoot a 7.62mm machine-gun round into its radiator. ‘Stop [messing] around!’ Johnson yelled into the company radio network when he still saw no action being taken. Finally, he shouted at the top of his voice, ‘Stop him, Red 1, stop him!’<\/p>\n

“That order was immediately followed by the loud reports of 25mm cannon fire from one or more of the platoon’s Bradleys. About half a dozen shots were heard in all.<\/p>\n

“‘Cease fire!’ Johnson yelled over the radio. Then, as he peered into his binoculars from the intersection on Highway 9, he roared at the platoon leader, ‘You just [expletive] killed a family because you didn’t fire a warning shot soon enough!'”<\/p>\n

?from an article<\/a> at commondreams.org, quoting Washington Post correspondent William Branigin’s eyewitness account<\/a>.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A little bit of truth slipped out recently, despite Donald Rumsfeld’s omnipotent micro-management.  The whitewashing effort, well underway for days, helps identify for us those few news outlets which still hold the truth in high regard, and reveals the rest … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[824,823,825,829,831,826,827,159,830,828],"class_list":["post-417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-captain","tag-company-radio-network","tag-correspondent","tag-donald-rumsfeld","tag-highway-9","tag-platoon-leader","tag-ronny-johnson","tag-united-states-army","tag-washington-post","tag-william-branigin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/burgwinkel.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/burgwinkel.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/burgwinkel.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/burgwinkel.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/burgwinkel.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/burgwinkel.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/burgwinkel.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/burgwinkel.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/burgwinkel.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}