re: #250 Obdicut

You don’t consider them to be independent witnesses, correct?

I never said they would lie about this, or anything like this. That is pure and simple. You made that part up.

I have the up most respect for the armed forces, and I explained that having reporters present is not a reflection on the trustworthiness of the armed forces.

Yet you keep pretending that you heard me say otherwise, and then you paraphrase the words in order to say that I was accusing them of lying.

AGAIN, I am now hoping that you and I just have a completely different understanding of the word independent as it relates to this story.

Having an independent free press to witness and record history is not because we think that the armed forces are liars, or that they would cover up something. It is so that no one can accuse them of that.

Is the Armed forces independent of the armed forces? Not by my definition.