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Politics : Stop the War! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: ajax99 who wrote (3534)	3/26/2003 7:32:01 PM
From: Rock_nj	Respond to of 21614

Because the American people don't like to think for themselves. Most probably don't really have the capacity to understand the true nature of our role in the world. They are brainwashed with government soundbites and talk radio. They don't read the independent press that would give them a different worldview then that presented by the maintream media and talk radio. Most probably don't even know that there is an independent press. It is rather odd how little of our own government's misdoing (like overthrowing democratic governments and supporting repressive regimes) ever makes it on those media formats. It makes me question how "liberal" the media really is? The mainstream media, and certainly talk radio, seem more interested in preserving rather then challenging the status quo. This whole "liberation" of Iraq is a great example. Don't get me wrong. I'm all for liberating the Iraqi people from Saddam's tyranical rule. But, I think it's naive for people to just cheer like mindless zombies when the President says we're there to liberate them and not account for the fact that we supported the same tyrancial Saddam Huessein regime in the 1980s and did business with him even as he gassed the Kurds. And add to that all the other repressive regimes that we've supported over the years from Iran to Chile and you get a very different picture of the U.S.'s role in the world. We haven't always acted as a "liberator", in fact we've often been an "oppressor".