Liar, Liar, Pants On Fire

(Or Full Of Bullet Holes)

Well, the dust has settled a good deal since I wrote Are They Just Plain Stupid, I Was Right, They Were Just Stupid, and What Is There To Not Understand about the little kidnapped communist Italian journalist Giuliana Sgrena.

Apparently, other than getting kidnapped and costing her homeland a whole bunch of Lira, she accomplished very little in her latest “wonderful communist adventure” as described by Jack Kelly in the Post Gazett:

“Sgrena went to Iraq to report on the heroic resistance to the American imperialists. Dutch journalist Harald Doornbos rode in the airplane to Baghdad with her.”

"Be careful not to get kidnapped," Doornbos warned Sgrena.

"You don't understand the situation," she responded, according to Doornbos' account last week in Nederlands Dagblad. (Excerpts were translated into English and posted on a Dutch writer's Web blog.) "The Iraqis only kidnap American sympathizers. The enemies of the Americans have nothing to fear."

Sgrena left her hotel the morning of Feb. 4 to interview refugees from Fallujah, the resistance stronghold captured by U.S. Marines in November. The interviews didn't go well.

"The refugees ... would not listen to me," she said. "I had in front of me the accurate confirmation of the analysis of what the Iraqi society had become as a result of the war and they would throw their truth in my face."

Sgrena's feelings were hurt that the refugees could be so curt to her: "I who had risked everything, challenging the Italian government who didn't want journalists to reach Iraq and the Americans who don't want our work to be witnessed of what really became of that country with the war and notwithstanding that which they call elections." (Maybe it reads better in Italian, or maybe she just can't write worth a damn.)

She got nabbed on her way back to her hotel. Sgrena told her captors she was on their side, and suggested they kidnap an American soldier instead. But the U.S. government doesn't pay ransoms.”

Italy has admitted that they paid a ransom for the return of her troublesome carcass and that the Italian government has agreed at the insistence of President George Bush to not be paying any more money for wayward journalists in the future.

I find it hilarious that the Iraqi’s would be “curt” to her. Well, most of the Iraqis are not STUPID like she is. They have enough every day first hand experience to know what is actually going on in Iraq and they don’t need a little communist Italian to tell them any differently. Sgrena has started believing her own propaganda, I’m afraid.

Now here is a real pisser. The US government has admitted that “the attack on the Toyota Corolla carrying Sgrena and Nicola Calipari, the intelligence officer, to Baghdad airport had been prompted by a satellite monitoring system. This detected that their vehicle did not have clearance from US military authorities. A signal alerted a mobile checkpoint near the airport and its soldiers opened fire.

“The Italian team should have known what to expect, but it appears they didn’t realise how sophisticated the American military are,” said Selva."

So isn’t that special. As a result of this silly bitch deciding to run around with an anti-American agenda in a foreign country where US forces are at war, our government has revealed detailed information about security measures being taken to protect our troops.

Not to say that all of the regional military muckity-mucks (except the Italians) didn’t already know about US satellite technology (here is a picture of where I live taken from satellite), but it really pisses me off that this stupid idiot “journalist” can run around the world spitting bile and venom about the US and the end result is the further compromising of our own national security.

Hey, Sgrena--kiss it baby.

Why don’t you get a life, and shut the hell up while you’re at it.