ニューヨークタイムズの記事すらまともに報じない大本営発表そのまま日本大手メディアは去れ！

転送、転載、引用、訳出、大歓迎！

　日本の大手メディアの惨状、大本営発表の繰り返し状況、そのアメリカ追随、国際版への拡大は、先刻承知の上だが、それでもなお、猛暑の最中、どの大手メディアも受信しているはずのアメリカの最大手、ニューヨークタイムズの記事すらまともに報じない、いや、これも何度も経験済みか、怒る方が損するだけか、それでもやはり、呆れる他ない。

　3日前には、以下の報道もあったが、日本語の記事は見掛けない。

　本日は、これと呼応する状況の大見出しが、またもや、ニューヨークタイムズから配信されてきた。

　私は、これも重要と判断するので、やはり、全文を、阿修羅戦争57掲示板に紹介する。

　簡略に言うと、アメリカの州知事が集まった機会に、これまでの苦情を言い交わし、国防総省の高官に、非公開の会議で、申し入れをしたのである。

　基本的には、州兵の「刈り取り」(callup)が、第二次世界大戦以来、最大規模となり、警察、消防、刑務所の護衛にまで、不足を来しているのである。山火事用のヘリコプター、黒鷹（ブラックホーク）までが、イラクに、いっちっち、なのである。

　日本のイラク派兵は、この穴埋めである。このアメリカ国内の状況を報道しない日本の大手メディアは、売国奴である。イラク派兵を推進する売国奴、小泉鈍首相の婦女暴行逮捕歴も報じない卑怯者よ、地獄行きの切符をくれてやるから、即刻、日本を去れ！

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/07/20/national/20guard.html?th

July 20, 2004

Governors Tell of War's Impact on Local Needs
By SARAH KERSHAW

SEATTLE, July 19 - With tens of thousands of their citizen soldiers now deployed in Iraq, many of the nation's governors complained on Sunday to senior Pentagon officials that they were facing severe manpower shortages in guarding prisoners, fighting wildfires, preparing for hurricanes and floods and policing the streets.

Concern among the governors about the war's impact at home has been rising for months, but it came into sharp focus this weekend as they gathered for their four-day annual conference here and began comparing the problems they faced from the National Guard's largest callup since World War II. On Sunday, the governors held a closed-door meeting with two top Pentagon officials and voiced their concerns about the impact both on the troops' families and on the states' ability to deal with disasters and crime.

Much of the concern has focused on wildfires, which have started to destroy vast sections of forests in several Western states. The governor of Oregon, Ted Kulongoski, a Democrat, said in an interview after meetings here Monday that the troop deployment had left his National Guard with half the usual number of firefighters because about 400 of them were overseas while a hot, dry summer was already producing significant fires in his state.

"We're praying a lot that a major fire does not break out," he said. "It has been dry out here, the snow pack's gone because of an extremely warm May and June and the fire season came earlier."

He added, "You're just going to have fires and if you do not have the personnel to put them out, they can grow very quickly into ultimately catastrophic fires.''

Gov. Dirk Kempthorne, a Republican of Idaho and departing chairman of the National Governors Association, also said through a spokesman that he was worried about the deployment of 2,000 members, or 62 percent of his National Guard, who are now training in Texas for a mission in Iraq.

"In the past we've been able to call on the National Guard," said Mark Snider, a spokesman for the governor. "We may not be able to call on these soldiers for firefighting capabilities."

California fire and forestry officials said they were not using National Guard troops to battle wildfires plaguing that state, but they did say that they were using nine Blackhawk helicopters borrowed from the Guard to fight the fires. Some of the helicopters are bound for Iraq in September.

More than 150,000 National Guard and Reserve troops are on active duty. Many of the Guard troops have received multiple extensions of their tours of duty since the United States went to war with Iraq last year.

While Western governors focused mostly on wildfires, governors and other officials from other regions expressed a host of other worries, both at the meeting here and in telephone interviews. In Arizona, officials say, more than a hundred prison guards are serving overseas, leaving their already crowded prisons badly short-staffed. In Tennessee, officials are worried about rural sheriff's and police departments, whose ranks have been depleted by the guard call- up. In Virginia, the concern is hurricanes; in Missouri, floods. And in a small town in Arkansas, Bradford, both the police chief and the mayor are now serving in Iraq, leaving their substitutes a bit overwhelmed.

"Our mayor and our police chief, along with six others were activated, and they're over in Iraq," said the acting mayor, Greba Edens, 79, in a telephone interview. "We had a police officer that could step in as chief, and I've been treasurer for 20 years so that just put me in the mayor's spot whether I wanted or it not."

Many of the most outspoken governors who expressed concerns here about the National Guard deployments over the weekend were Democrats, including Mr. Kulongoski, Tom Vilsack of Iowa, Mark Warner of Virginia and Gary Locke of Washington.

"This has had a huge impact," Governor Locke said during a news conference on Saturday.

In his state, 62 percent of its 87,000 Army National Guard soldiers are on active duty, including the majority of the guard's best-trained firefighters, at a time when wildfires are beginning to sweep through the state, according to state officials.

But even during a meeting that featured plenty of partisan sniping, Republicans also sounded worried about whether the deployments would leave them vulnerable in emergencies.

Roger Schnell, Alaska's deputy commissioner for the Department of Military and Veterans Affairs, said in a telephone interview that wildfires raging through central Alaska were especially worrisome, given that 15 percent of its National Guard was stationed overseas. Alaska's governor, Frank H. Murkowski, a Republican, attended the governors' association meeting but was not available for comment.

While it is a small deployment compared with that of other sates, "they are critical people," Mr. Schnell said, adding that the Alaska National Guard was called in two weeks ago to help battle the fires.

"It has the potential to get much worse than it is," he said. "It's already bad. That could put us in a bind."

Maj. Gen. Timothy J. Lowenberg, commander of the Washington State National Guard, who attended the Sunday meeting with Pentagon officials, said in an interview that he heard worries voiced by plenty of Republicans.

"There are absolutely no partisan pattern to the concerns being raised," he said. "They are being articulated by governors of both parties."

　なお、似非紳士、朝日新聞は、以下のごとく、米軍の死者の公式発表を、 自称平和主義者の「血に飢えた読者」向けの記事にし、最大の鴨の心情左翼向けには、一応、「英米の非政府組織」による「イラク人の死者数」も添えている。この方式を「バランスを取る」と称しているのである。

http://www.asahi.com/international/update/0721/014.html
イラク開戦以来の米兵死者９百人に　イラク人は１万人超

　イラク駐留米軍によると、バグダッドの北方約７０キロで２１日未明、道路脇に仕掛けられた爆弾が爆発し、パトロール中の米兵１人が死亡、６人が負傷した。ＡＰ通信によると、これで昨年３月のイラク戦争開戦以来、死亡した米兵は９００人に達した。

　イラクでの死者数を調査している英米の非政府組織「イラク・ボディーカウント」によると、６月２８日の主権移譲後も、日に２人を超えるペースで米英などの多国籍軍兵士が死亡している。また、開戦後のイラク人の死者数は最少で１万１２５２人、最大で１万３２１３人としている。

(07/21 18:56)

　「幸多き戦争よ！なんじはアメリカに繁栄をもたらすであろう・・・」（『フィガロ』(1990.11.05)
　「死者多き戦争よ！なんじは常に新聞の部数拡大をもたらす・・・・」（憎まれ愚痴）

　以上。

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