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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH
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To: Enigma who wrote (510739)12/16/2003 12:44:06 AM
From: PartyTime  Read Replies (3) of 769670
 
And what of Rumsfeld's inappropriateness that Saddam should have shot himself, that he was a coward 'cause he didn't.

Do you think Arab-thinking people think of Saddam as a coward after more than a decade of his defiant standing against three American presidents? And since when has suicide become an acceptably espoused standard?

Get those cowboys out of the White House. Get someone in there who believes education and diplomacy are a far more powerful tools than showing off, acting tough or manipulating media.

Much of what is complained about what Saddam did happened before the US decided to give money to him for weapons procurement. Where was the complaint then? For that matter, where was Rumsfeld then?

Unfortunately, the American media has become like quarterbacks, except they throw message balls to the any viewer willing to grab the message on the ball and then it gets passed around to others, accurate or not.

I continue to submit that perhaps the greatest casualty of this war has become the American media. What it reports (or fails to report) has become more and more spoonfeed, both contradictory and unreliable. This is a true tragedy in a land that's supposedly free and a free land that requires a media that challenges instead of accepts and directs.

If there's any comfort from this Saddam capture it's that it got Michael Jackson out of the public consciousness, if but for a brief spell; just as Jackson got Bush and Prince Charles out of the public consciousness during the Bush Brit visit protests and the Miami world trade protests.

Oh, well.
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