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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (195268)	8/5/2006 9:50:58 PM
From: bentway	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

The Israelis ran all the reporters out of the south. So, they manage the news too, maybe even more than Hezbollah.

To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (195268)	8/5/2006 10:08:30 PM
From: bentway	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

"A month earlier, Perle, in a June 25 Op-Ed in the Washington Post, revived an old trope from the height of the Cold War, accusing those who propose diplomacy of being like Neville Chamberlain, the British prime minister who tried to appease Hitler. "Condoleezza Rice," wrote Perle, "has moved from the White House to Foggy Bottom, a mere mile or so away. What matters is not that she is further removed from the Oval Office; Rice's influence on the president is undiminished. It is, rather, that she is now in the midst of and increasingly represents a diplomatic establishment that is driven to accommodate its allies even when (or, it seems, especially when) such allies counsel the appeasement of our adversaries." Is this where you picked up your "appeasement" meme Nadine? You neocons just LOVE to equate the current struggle with WW II, but the fit just isn't there at all. Sometimes I think Perle might actually be an agent of Mossad.

To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (195268)	8/6/2006 11:56:07 AM
From: Hawkmoon	Respond to of 281500

But instead of merely transmitting Hezbollah’s unverified and unverifiable claims to the outside world, Cooper — to his credit — exposed the efforts by Hezbollah to manipulate CNN and other Western reporters. It’s quite a contrast from the much more accommodating approach taken by his colleague, Nic Robertson, in a report that aired on a variety of CNN programs (including AC360) back on July 18, a report that Robertson himself has now conceded was put together under Hezbollah's control. Unlike Robertson, Cooper was explicit about how Hezbollah’s operatives had set all of the rules: “Young men on motor scooters followed our every movement. They only allowed us to videotape certain streets, certain buildings,” he explained. He countered Hezbollah claims that Israel targets civilians by pointing out that the group based itself in civilian areas and that Israel's air force drops leaflets warning of attacks. I wonder why US reporters are willing to permit themselves to be used as tools for propaganda for EITHER SIDE. That's not journalism. It should have been a critical portion of Robertson's report that Hizbullah was using civilians areas to hide their military equipment and putting people's lives at risk (and thus mutually culpable for casualties).. But he didn't want to upset his "minders" and was more focused on getting out a lop-sided news report that served the purpose of Hizbullah. Hawk