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To: redfish who wrote (14249)	12/1/2004 3:19:54 PM
From: Michael Watkins	Respond to of 20773

Exactly what I was going to say.

To: redfish who wrote (14249)	12/1/2004 3:29:54 PM
From: NOW	Respond to of 20773

indeed: what do they teach in school these days anyway?

To: redfish who wrote (14249)	12/2/2004 3:19:47 PM
From: Sully-	Respond to of 20773

Long Live Free FALLUJAH! By Stephen Schwartz TECH CENTRAL STATION With the liberation of FALLUJAH and the fall of the jihadist regime in the town, it is apparent that American media intend to keep their story on message: the message being that the U.S. military operation there has failed and that Fallujans, and Iraqis in general, still hate the intervention forces. At the same time, other reports tell a more significant and eloquent story: the jihadists had set up a Taliban-style dictatorship, in which women who did not cover their entire bodies, people listening to music, and members of spiritual Sufi orders -- that is, ordinary Fallujans -- were subject to torture and execution...... dev.siliconinvestor.com Iraqi bomb labs signal attacks in the works ....Chemicals and bomb-making literature found at two houses in Fallujah, Iraq, last week show Iraqi rebels are prepared to use chemical and biological weapons in future attacks, a U.S. military spokesman said yesterday..... dev.siliconinvestor.com .... a large number of the residents of FALLUJAH, before fleeing the battle, left blankets and bedding for the Marines and Soldiers along with notes thanking the Americans for liberating their city from the terrorists, as well as invitations to the Marines and Soldiers to sleep in their houses. I've yet to see a report in the media of this. Imagine that..... dev.siliconinvestor.com Iraq Troops Find Chemical Lab in Fallujah story.news.yahoo.com So why are they choosing to never show us what kind of enemy we're up against? KEEPING US BLIND TO THE ENEMY dev.siliconinvestor.com .... In Fallujah, the U.S. and allies uncovered the command centres of the Sunni Jihadi underground..... .... everywhere in the Sunni Triangle, astounding quantities of munitions continue to surface..... .... part of Zarqawi's publicized strategy for defeating the new Iraqi government has been to molest and butcher Shias randomly, in the hope of igniting a Sunni-Shia civil war..... dev.siliconinvestor.com THE GLOOM PATROL dev.siliconinvestor.com Inside an Islamic "Charity" FALLUJAH yields up weapons, videos On patrol Tuesday, marines find largest arms cache yet, hid in a nondescript building. dev.siliconinvestor.com Victory? What victory? Powerline - If the FALLUJAH campaign had been long and difficult, and had given rise to many casualties, the hysteria in the media would have been unrestrained. Instead, however, the FALLUJAH campaign was one of the most stunning successes in the history of urban warfare. Consequently, it has dropped off the media radar screen. Newspaper attention immediately turned, not to the important strategic advantages of depriving the terrorists of their home base, or to the horrifying discoveries of torture and murder chambers, the "Iraq al Qaeda" headquarters, or vast quantities of munitions that have been captured in FALLUJAH, but to: 1) video footage of a Marine shooting a wounded terrorist, and 2) terrorist attacks in other parts of Iraq. The point of the latter coverage is not subtle; the reader is intended to conclude that the battle of FALLUJAH has been futile. Today, the Associated Press reports: "Violent Attacks Sweep Baghdad; GI Killed": <<< Insurgents ambushed a U.S. patrol, killing a soldier, gunned down four government employees and clashed with American troops in neighborhoods across Baghdad on Saturday. Nine Iraqis died in fighting west of the capital — another sign the insurgency remains potent despite the fall of its stronghold, FALLUJAH. >>> If you keep reading, you find this: <<< "[T]he widespread clashes in Baghdad — which broke out early Saturday in at least a half-dozen areas — and other areas of central and northern Iraq underscored the perilous state of security in this country after 18 months of American military occupation — and just more than two months before vital national elections." >>> Baghdad is, I believe, a city approximately equal to Los Angeles in area and population. One can fairly question whether incidents occurring in six locations constitute "widespread clashes" "sweep[ing] Baghdad." But, as always, the tone of the coverage of the Iraq war reflects the agenda of those who write the news. dev.siliconinvestor.com