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To: LindyBill who wrote (38892)	4/11/2004 9:56:12 AM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793625

<<But they can only gain such a victory if we citizens permit it.>> I agree with Den Beste that the war inside our skulls is important. It's inside our skulls where we interpret what we perceive. When we interpret things negatively, that has impact. Den Beste and I have different notions, though, on what is undue negative interpretation. I offer this as an example. <<For instance, there's this report from Thursday: More than 280 Iraqis have been killed and 400 wounded this week in the U.S. Marines' siege of insurgents in this city west of Baghdad, the director of Fallujah's hospital said Thursday.... notably absent from this report is any indication of how many of those who were killed or wounded were active combatants. Quite frankly, by using the bland term "Iraqis" collectively for all of the casualties, this news report tries to portray all of them as innocent victims, uninvolved civilians.>> So here we have a hospital director who give us a number on Iraqi casualties. And what does Den Beste do with that? He fusses because the number doesn't distinguish terrorists from innocents. Like somehow it's the job of the director of a hospital to maintain demographic statistics on the folks coming through his ER? He patches them up or puts them in body bags. That's his job. He recorded how many of each there were and he reported it. But something in Den Beste's skull turns that into sedition. Yep, he's right about the war inside our skulls. He's the one making the negative inference. What was reported was appropriate fact.