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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (220623)	2/24/2007 4:03:38 AM
From: Elroy	Read Replies (1) of 281500

The MSM didn't report WWII as WON, WON, WON! in 1942 or 1943. Indeed, they had to cover up losses the like of which we have never seen in this war. BUT they did report the war on-going, not lost; noted Allied progress where it happened; and generally expressed a preference that the Allies win over the Axis. How many times do I have to point out that that analogy is totally inaccurate. And ongoing war and policing a defeated nation are not even close to the same thing. We hadn't won in 1943 in Europe. If the US were in Germany from 1945-49 after the defeat of Nazi Germany by the allies, and in 1949 the Germans were actively trying to kill each other as much as possible, and the US was unable to get them to stop killing each other, you can bet your ass the US media would have said "These Germans are a waste of our time and our presence there is a waste of US lives, lets leave them to themselves and the Russians, and go play golf". That's the comparable analogy to Iraq today - Saddam's regime is dust, the "war" is over, and the battles in Iraq today against are nothing like fighting Nazi Germany in 1943.

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