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

To: RealMuLan who wrote (9978)	4/8/2003 2:45:08 PM
From: Rock_nj	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 21614

That's very true. In other countries it's almost better because the citizens know that what their government tells them is propaganda, while in the U.S. people are under the illusion that we really have a free press and that the government doesn't interject propaganda, and therefore they are more easily deceived.

To: RealMuLan who wrote (9978)	4/8/2003 2:45:46 PM
From: Thomas M.	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 21614

Funny thing is not many Americans realize that propaganda exists in every country, every nation. It is a mean to govern. they tend to think only China or ex-USSR has propaganda. Yup. Pravda was not very effective, because everyone in Russia knew it was garbage. In contrast, our propaganda system has successfully created the illusion of impartiality and criticism. Foreign press give take on U.S. coverage of war by Nadirah Z. Sabir accessatlanta.com <<< . . . On the road to Basra, Robert Fisk of London's Independent asked himself, "Does George, who declined to serve his country in Vietnam, have any idea what these corpses smell like? Does Tony have the slightest conception of what the flies are like, the big bluebottles that feed on the dead of the Middle East, and then come to settle on our faces and our notepads? "Soldiers know. I remember one British officer asking to use the BBC's satellite phone just after the liberation of Kuwait in 1991. He was talking to his family in England and I watched him carefully. 'I have seen some terrible things,' he said. And then he broke down, weeping and shaking and holding the phone dangling in his hand over the transmission set. Did his family have the slightest idea what he was talking about? They would not have understood by watching television" . . . >>> This is why American policy makers determined years ago that any time we assault another country, it must be a quick and decisive action. And drawn out action would give the public time to react to the horrible things we are doing. Tom