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To: Mary Cluney who wrote (213961)	12/29/2004 1:16:58 PM
From: Road Walker	Respond to of 1578739

re: At least the victims of natural disaster have our sympathies. That may not be much, but that's far better than the victims of man made disasters. Main Stream Media is somehow able to put that out of sight and out of the minds of most people. Good point Mary. John

To: Mary Cluney who wrote (213961)	12/30/2004 1:47:49 AM
From: Elroy	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1578739

They have no trouble projecting all the horrible images from the natural disaster, but we don't really get the same images from the man made tsunami. Well if one considers the man made tsunami to be Saddam's 20 year rule over and destruction of Iraq, what would you have mainstream media do? Should the media broadcast daily about how there is an Iraqi dictator ruling an oppressed people with an iron fist, chopping off ears, using the country's resources to build himself palaces while the average Joe hasn't enough money to get married, his son's raping and fondling whichever peasant girls they choose, and 60% of the population being forbidden from practicing their religious rituals by his police force? Well how about the fact that he controlled the media so they weren't free to report these things? The man made tsunami is not the invasion, it was Saddam's regime. The coalition didn't attack Iceland, it attacked an authoritarian inhumane regime which deserved what it got - destruction.