Compare and contrast - Part 2

Compare story 1 with story 2 each time: Story 1: Bodycount

Please check the bottom of this post (linked below) for updates: From the Guardian, November 9th:

ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast (AP) - Security forces opened fire Tuesday as thousands of angry government loyalists massed outside a French evacuation post for foreigners, reportedly killing seven people and wounding 200 in violence pitting France against its former prize colony.

France's military denied responsibility, saying it was loyalist demonstrators who opened fire as a French convoy left the post, and Ivorian security forces who returned fire.

Uh, well, that isn't going to fly, because the French are on video discharging their weapons, quite extensively at that. Nice try, though.

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Chris Mullin is now a Foreign Office Minister.I must admit to finding it strange that a Minister of the Crown should withhold from the police the names of the killers of 21 innocents and the maiming of hundreds more, that he should be happy for the killers to escape justice - and that seemingly everyone else is happy with this. It appalls me.

Mr Mullin's decision to withold the information is no secret. Yet I've never heard a single question from the Tory benches or from anywhere else on this subject.

Pasted from Laban Tall - UK Commentators

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My problem with the BBC is not that they seek out critical voices and broadcast negative stories about Iraq. My problem is the sheer repetitiveness of this interpretation, day-after-day and month-after-month, with little or no counterbalance. Does every expert at the BBC have to be a leftist who writes for the Guardian and thinks Americans are stupid? It seems that way.

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While on a patrol, his unit was ambushed. An IED took out most of his mates in his vehicle and he ended up with a bullet wound to the head. After the firefight he was put into an ambulance for transport to a medical facility. During transport the ambulance was virtually destroyed by an IED. Three of the four patients being transported died in the blast. Terrorists targeted an ambulance filled with wounded. Feigning death, only to jump up and kill. Feigning surrender, only to draw our troops in and kill them. Attacking ambulances.Where’s the outrage?

Pasted from Alpha Patriot

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...my little brother is an enlisted Marine (a sniper with 1-3) in Fallujah. This weekend he called for the first time since the battle began. He informed us that a large number of the residents of Fallujah, before fleeing the battle, left blankets and bedding for the Marines and Soldiers along with notes thanking the Americans for liberating their city from the terrorists, as well as invitations to the Marines and Soldiers to sleep in their houses. I've yet to see a report in the media of this. Imagine that.

Pasted from National Review

So stories about the good side in Iraq etc get scrubbed as do bad stories about the French. Impartial? Unbiased? Andy Marr and his mob needs a new set of glasses....