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Annexus Quam 926 posts |
Mar 26, 2003, 23:55
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It's already on your screens, methinks! And free too! http://www.thescreamonline.com/images3-1/clone2.html Maybe someone can also explain to me why the news in the U.S. is always called the Morning *Show*, the Evening *Show*, etc... honest question, promised. I doubt that so-called news channels, show channels or whatever they are over there (CNN and the likes) have shown the bloody mayhem in Baghdad I've seen on the telly today, a BBC radio correspondent claims to have seen a mother and child incinerated, why is this not shown? 'War's nasty', I'm assured by the generals yet it looks more like a movie, stars'n'stripes included. Around 1,500 people have already died (only 50 of those are *our* boys) and it looks like Dubya's predators have still got something itchy up their feathery arse.
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landells 680 posts |
Mar 27, 2003, 03:19
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The following is from a transcript of a media briefing given by Brigadier General Vincent Brooks, deputy operations director of U.S. Central Command: Q: Well, now it's almost one week since the war started, and many hundred of civil Iraqians have been killed by coalition bombs. Well, do you think that it will help Iraqi people to believe you and to trust you, to believe that you are coming to emancipate them? GEN. BROOKS: Thanks for the question. First, I don't accept the premise of the question, which says that the civilians have been killed by coalition bombs. I just don't accept that. What we have seen over the last several days is Iraqi citizens being marched out in front of irregular formations while they are firing. Iraqi civilians are being killed on the battlefield by Iraqis. I can't make that point more strongly than I've just done it. Q: Sir, a few days ago General Franks stood here and said this was a platform for truth, not propaganda. To that end, when will you show us pictures of what happens when precision bombs don't go where they are supposed to, when they fail to hit their designated targets, or if they fail to go off at all? And will you also provide us with a running audit of the effectiveness of these weapons? That is, the number that succeed, the numbers that miss, and the ones that don't go off. And, if you don't doesn't that expose you to the charge that this is more propaganda than truth? GEN. BROOKS: Well, I can certainly assure you, having been up here each one of the days and each one of the briefings that this is a platform for truth. I cannot say that about everything that you are seeing from platforms in other countries or in other areas. We certainly have seen different approaches to informing the media. We've got a wide open discussion with you on a daily basis. We have embedded media so that the truth does come out. And we believe we are being very consistent with that. http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/03/27/1048653781459.html *** And some prick was on Fox News' Hannity & Coumes (a face-off between liberals and conservatives) quoting Hitler by referring to the French and the Germans et al as "useless idiots" and saying they must take a very large part of the blame for US deaths. Another blamed the UN for everything and said it should have no say in the future of Iraq - he then declared that the UN was anti-American and anti-Semitic! *** And where is the rest of the news. All Sky and Fox ever show is war footage and propaganda - the same stuff over and over again and again...no other news
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FourWinds 10943 posts |
Mar 27, 2003, 05:35
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Sky and Fox are particularly on the US side when it comes to choice of reports sent out. It's quite sickening. The UK gov't actually complained that the BBC were concentrating too much on the negatives of the war!After seeing how many stories appear on the BBC news ticker with 'More Soon' on the end and then NEVER appear I see a lot of (possible) censorship on the BBC too ... and Blair doesn't like what they put out! What the hell would satisfy him? Pravda seem to be fairly straight as a lot of the figures they quote do fall somewhere between the two official figures of the opposite sides. The first casualty in war etc ...
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Annexus Quam 926 posts |
Mar 27, 2003, 20:12
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Hi Landells; as usual, the general evades the questions. I don't think the huge political turmoil in European parliaments, mass demonstrations all over the villages and towns everywhere and protests and strikes on a daily basis can hide the sheer disgust at those disgusting arrogant characters in the U.S., U.K. and Spanish governments. This is all over the news and no-one can hide that when it's part of everyone's lives and in everyone's mouths right now. In my life, I've never ever seen people SO involved. If this war is good for anything, it will bring all people together and isolate the few that support it and chuck those outdated anomalies in the history bin. And bring the new millenium on for good, please.
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