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To: Sam Citron who wrote (68704)	3/14/2003 4:19:54 PM
From: zonder	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 70976

Sun Tzu - You are prescient :-)

To: Sam Citron who wrote (68704)	3/14/2003 7:31:07 PM
From: Sun Tzu	Respond to of 70976

Sam, I agree with you about the double standards we play. In fact this has been my biggest reason for opposing the war on Iraq. As you have pointed out, if human rights were truly a priority for the administration would have used its influence to promote them among our "friends". For example, we could have for all intensive purposes rewritten the Kuwaitie constitution (12 years ago) or at least asserted that women should be allowed to vote (presently). I fully empathize with he Kurdish plight. That does not change the fact that this article, like almost everything else I read in mass media is part of the propaganda machine. The article fully supports everything that the administration wants and portrays this invasion as motivated in part by humanitarian concerns. The only difference is that now Turkey is joining the rank of the bad guys. You would have never read this if Turkey had approved the land rights for US troops. Sun Tzu PS Fred, I am interested to hear if you think we should form a coalition of "willing" to come to the rescue of Turkish Kurds. The essence of propaganda consists in winning people over to an idea so sincerely, so vitally, that in the end they succumb to it utterly and can never escape from it. -- Joseph Goebbels