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To: TimF who wrote (171595)	7/3/2003 10:38:21 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1583737

what does it matter if the reporting is accurate? But is it accurate? Its sounds like its accurate to me. How do you know it isn't? Most media outlets are careful not to extrapolate too much and color the truth because they often are not the only outlet covering a story......esp. when it comes to Iraq. I suppose the straight facts are more often accurate then not, (but not always, for example the claim that the soldiers who went to get Jessica Lynch were using blanks), Frankly, who knows what happened with J. Lynch? There are so many different versions, it makes my head spin. but the news analysis and commentary that portrays the situation as being anything like Vietnam is not accurate. At the present time, I think that that's an exaggeration but that's only because it does not appear to be organized opposition like it was in Vietnam. However, that could all change if someone pulled together the disparate groups that are involved. Then I think it could develop into a "quagmire" similar to Vietnam. This arrangement is dangerous and our troops are vulnerable in a foreign land. No one likes that kind of situation. Remember when I would say fighting on your own turf gives you an advantage, psychological and otherwise. That did not appear to be true during the war but its becoming more true now IMO. ted