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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Bill who wrote (88663)	11/19/2004 1:27:47 AM
From: Grainne	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

Our media is doing a pretty good job of convincing Americans that Iraq is a just war, particularly by using the word "insurgent" whenever they mean "Iraqi". I bet you would be one of the first insurgents rising up if someone came to your town, though. I bet you would resist the same way they are resisting. Who or what gives us the right to destroy their country and kill them? Unless you are a critical thinker and careful listener the brainwashing of American tv will get to you after awhile. If you watch BBC news or Al-Jazzera you will see all the bodies of wounded and dead totally innocent Iraqi women, children, babies, old men and women, etc. who were just living in their own towns before the Americans came and bombed them. We are not allowed to see those images, so we get a very distorted picture of what is going on there. The Europeans are concerned about the vast number of human rights abuses we are committing there, war crimes. I can't speak for your three friends. It is true that in some places we are building sewers and schools. However, that does not outweigh the horrendous things we have done, and I didn't even mention Abu Graibh yet, or the deliberate murders of Iraqis by hopped up American soldiers. Two interesting facts I read in the papers the other day that most Americans who just watch the news don't seem to know--so far in Fallujah only 15 of the "insurgents" that the Americans are "interrogating" have turned out to be non-Iraqis, not the thousands of purported terrorists swarming into the country. AND we are not in control of 22 Iraqi cities. It is going to be a long, bloody, fight, and we will either lose or destroy their entire country trying to prevail. It's like T.E. Lawrence said--I'm paraphrasing a bit because it's late and I don't feel like doing any more web searches--"fighting insurgents is like eating soup with a knife."