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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Road Walker who wrote (265157)12/19/2005 11:07:10 AM
From: combjelly  Read Replies (2) of 1586686
 
"Maybe... but they talked about the Iraq government torturing Sunni's"

What they described was pretty bad. But things are probably worse than they said. When the insurgency started, it was mainly aimed at our troops and the government. They bombed police stations and targeted people who tried to join up. A bit over a year ago, things started to change. The first real sign that things were different was when those school kids were targeted. Now the targets are markets, mosques and other sites that aren't as clearly government connected.

We get very little information out of Iraq, it is hard to follow what is happening there. It, in fact, is worse that could be gleaned before because now we know that a certain amount of the news is commissioned by the military. So we can probably discount anything positive like those stories about villages defending themselves against insurgents and such. Most of the media people there stick to the green zone, so there isn't any way to get information outside of that area. For obvious reasons, the military isn't going to be a good source. Even if they follow the old rules which firmly discouraged misinformation, they aren't going to report things that reflect poorly on the mission. But they don't follow those rule any more.
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