Jill Carroll's Release & How It Is Likely To Play Out In The Media

Since 04-03-06

Subject: Re: Jill Carroll's Release & How It Is Likely To Play Out In The Media

Jill Carroll's presence in Iraq bothered me from the day I first heard of it. Here is a prime example of a "I can do anything I want in the world. I am an emancipated woman. Get out of my way" woman.

The reality is she is a naive, uninformed, undeveloped child. If her parents had any smarts at all they would have convinced her how terribly imprudent and dangerous an assignment in Iraq would be.

Balance that danger with the what she has to offer. Objectively analyzed what real worth are the Iraq analyses she writes to us back in the U.S.? We would be better off without her warped perspectives.

Tom -----

Original Message ----- From: Roland Fraga
To: Al & Sara-Jo Butz
Sent: Saturday, April 01, 2006 9:20 AM
Subject: Jill Carroll's Release & How It Is Likely To Play Out In The Media

Hide and Watch.

Jill Carroll sure seemed concerned about her (poor) treatment while she was their captive and they had her on film??? Now, they're the good guys? How about the military that risked their lives trying to get her out??

From the general: Devildog Comment: This is the second such email received today. The first was from a professional writer and while it lacked the personal knowledge aspect, the content was essentially the same. This came in on the retired Marine circuit. I removed the names of the original and second sender.

JDL

I just heard from a good friend of mine who attended the University of Massachusetts when Jill Carroll was a journalism student there and a reporter on the school newspaper. Since UMASS is not Ohio State, he not only personally knew her there, but read her articles, and what he has to say is incredibly unsettling if you have seen her on TV the past few days since her release.

To suggest she is about to be used by all of liberalism and the leftist media to hurt the USA and portray further abandonment of our troops "to the troops" is suggested in his note to me, which I have paraphrased to keep his identity confidential. I know this guy well and he is a super straight shooter, and his knowledge is firsthand.

Read on:

"I have some inside information that I ask you circulate so that everyone is not blindsided by what seems likely to happen once the leftists begin to use the Jill Carroll release by the terrorists in Iraq. I was amused to see America's media this morning debating whether Jill Carroll is suffering from the "Stockholm Syndrome" as a result of her captivity in Iraq.

In case you and your colleagues find yourselves somehow being drawn into this debate, which I expect will only grow in the next couple of days once she starts giving major media interviews, I wanted to give you a bit of background on Jill.

I actually know Jill quite well from UMass, where she was a reporter for the school newspaper. When Jill makes comments about how her suffering was nothing compared to the Iraqi people and that she is rooting for the insurgents, Jill is NOT suffering from Stockholm Syndrome.

She is an extreme liberal [probably more communist/socialist]; she has never been a fan of America [which she used to spell Amerikkka in her articles], she hates the military, and she despises "republikkkans" as she likes to write.

I have no doubt that she went to Iraq with a political agenda and wouldn't be surprised to hear some outrageous things come out of her mouth in the upcoming days. She is an activist way beyond Cindy Sheehan------ so watch out.

We are in for a whole string of anti-US and anti-military comments. Mark my words, you are going to see her on Larry King talking about how the military is abusing the Iraqi people and how bad the war is, and about how righteous her captors are."