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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: michael97123 who wrote (234975)7/2/2007 7:44:33 PM
From: Nadine Carroll  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 
Same has happened in Iraq.

No michael. The officer corps has been careful and guarded in its statements. Now the politicians, it's true, were like the financial advisor telling you to buy tech stocks in the 1999. All you heard was the upside. Was he lying? In most cases not, he spoke as he believed, and took a bath along with his clients. Same thing for George Bush.

The difference is that American press corps treated Iraq with the attitudes of Vietnam - that these guys are lying, that we must treat anything they say super skeptically, that we'll believe an Al Qaeda press release before we'll believe an American one. This was less true for the relatively few reporters who actually embedded, but the editors back home all had the Vietnam mentality with few exceptions. They were always on the hunt for 'gotcha' stories against the military, and few stopped to consider whether the net effect of their reporting might be supporting AQ's war effort more than the Americans, and whether they should stop doing that. Nothing your average newspaper editor seems to dread more than being accused of writing US propaganda. So we have a news frame where body counts and abuses lead, Medals of Honor and achievements are buried or not reported at all.
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