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

To: Sojourner Smith who wrote (5335)	3/29/2003 7:12:51 PM
From: ChrisJP	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 21614

Hi Sojourner, I'm highly skeptical of any reports from one side about the other side until it has been confirmed by the other side. The media is being played by both sides like a fiddle. The only difference is that the US isn't very good at it. But then again, the Iraqis have had more practice, lol. Chris

To: Sojourner Smith who wrote (5335)	3/29/2003 7:19:37 PM
From: ChrisJP	Respond to of 21614

Then, to my surprise, a CBS correspondent rose to complain fairly vehemently that, while "embedded" reporters were offering many tiny pictures, the "big picture" was supposed to come from Centcom; instead, he commented, all that was being offered were videos of micro-air strikes. That excerpt is from this post: Message 18772205 Hasn't anyone figured it out yet -- or even done the troop count math ? Our REAL Army is the one that doesn't have the gazzillion embedded reporters in it. How many solders does it take to string out across 300 miles. 60,000 ? That means the other 50,000 (out of the 120,000+ reported to be in Iraq) are somewhere else. Chris