“I think Peters make a big mistake saying what he said. Lets get this kid back to our control, investigate everything and then see if he is guilty of anything. Who knows he could be guilty of something that would get him the death penalty in our own country. But the process needs to be applied and that determination needs to be made by our military courts is applicable. The last thing we want is this kid to be IO fodder for the Taliban to broadcast all over the world like they did Daniel Pearl.”

Also, I think it’s unfair to say that votevets and IAVA are anti-military, when both these organizations were founded by, and are run by, veterans. I have interviewed Paul Riekhoff and other IAVA members on the radio, and find them to be sincere people who care about fellow troops. I think the idea that they are “anti-troops” is a statement of disagreement with their politics by people who supported the idea of invading Iraq.

Thanks for the response. There is a lot more info to this story than I can’t say right now and much more than the press knows about. It will come out, and when it does people will look back at my blog (and my good friend PJ Tobia’s blog) and then know what I was talking about.

Trust me they are looking under every flipping rock for him, even though there are a few who are letting their egos get in the way. Nothing else I can say about that.

BTW, IAVA and VoteVets are not leading milblog or large milblog sites. They are propaganda machines that are politically biased with agendas that are not 100% for supporting the troops. The largest milblog site on the web is milblogging.com even though it is more of a portal to all milblogs. The largest (based on readership and popularity) is http://www.blackfive.net which you quoted. There is none larger than them.

Having been deployed multiple times I can tell you that all media outlets (right and left) are equally represented via AFN and military supported media outlets. Different groups generally lean one way or another, depending on their impressions on what political party best represents them and their interests. The unions, NAACP, ACLU and ACORN for example are considered to favor the Democratic party while the NRA, the Military and faith based organization are typically and for the most part lean towards Conservative parties and ideals.

Back to the point of this thread, I think Peters make a big mistake saying what he said. Lets get this kid back to our control, investigate everything and then see if he is guilty of anything. Who knows he could be guilty of something that would get him the death penalty in our own country. But the process needs to be applied and that determination needs to be made by our military courts is applicable. The last thing we want is this kid to be IO fodder for the Taliban to broadcast all over the world like they did Daniel Pearl.

Current lineup here: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=American_Forces_Network&section=26

For the record, they switch back between CNN and FOX in most places such as mess halls, gyms, etc. I had the opportunity to spend a night aboard a carrier at sea a year ago and they had CNN on constantly in the ship’s mess.

And I don’t keep up on things, but last I heard only one hour of Rush Limbaugh was broadcast on Armed Forces radio, along with other talk shows and things like NPR and a great variety of programming. As to what one might hear played by an individual soldier in the barracks, that’s another story… but that’s not something official Army is feeding anyone, of course.