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To: Ilaine who wrote (43221)5/10/2004 1:27:45 PM
From: Sully-  Read Replies (3) of 793721
 
Media stampede?

...alleged abuses include the stripping and beating of
a 12-year-old girl and an imam being forced to wear
women's underwear and locked up with female
prisoners........

How long was this in the spotlight? Where was the media
stampede here?
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....In a scene reminiscent of Somalia, frenzied crowds
dragged the burned, mutilated bodies of four American
civilian workers through the streets of a town west of
Baghdad and strung two of them up from a bridge after
rebels ambushed their SUVs.....
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post-gazette.com

As much as I understand what you are upset about, I am
appalled that atrocities like this are swept under the rug
because of any number of bullshit excuses. The liberal
media has any number of excuses to justify their lack of
coverage & justification for these types of atrocities.

The same goes for how our prisoners were treated by Saddam
& how he treated his own people.

Yes, what those prison guards did was horrific. Yes, there
is absolutely no excuse for what happened in Abu Ghraib.
Yes everyone involved & responsible for these crimes
should be severely punished.

But that process was well under way before we even learned
about it & the media is not properly presenting that side
of this tragedy. Meanwhile the media is blowing this
completely out of all proportion & many in the media are
intentionally trying to politicize it with slanted, biased
& misleading reporting. And they are responsible for not
reporting with similar disdain & outrage the other
atrocities that have occurred.

I have a serious problem with that aspect of this terrible
terrible story. No one is getting a fair & balanced view
of the world & the liberal media & liberal politicians are
doing this for political gain & anti-war purposes.

And I find that unconscionable.
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