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To: Emile Vidrine who wrote (5563)	4/26/1999 9:51:00 PM
From: John Lacelle	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 17770

Emile, Very interesting post. I was watching Peter Arnett of CNN speaking at the University of Lincoln, in Nebraska about his life as a war reporter. He was pointing out the personal attacks he took for his effort to bring the truth of the Gulf War to CNN and its viewers. He was hurt by the attacks that CNN got. One writer called him "Benedict Arnett". There was tremendous pressure on him and the other CNN reporters in Baghdad to favor the coalition forces. To his credit, he remained faithful to the reporting of facts and not to any propaganda that might have been useful. Fast foward to his activity in Yugoslavia. He told an intersting story about how Ratko Miladic (the Serbian rebel army general and idicted war criminal) grabbed him by the collar and dragged him over to a bus outside of Sebrenka. Arnett had asked him about whether rapes had occured on the Muslim women. Inside the bus Arnett found it packed with these women, some had urinated on the floor (probably due to fear), and they were dirty and looked like hell (as anyone who was getting ethnically cleansed might look) and Ratko said "Look at these ugly stinking bitches...do you think my men would want anything to do with them?" Arnett said that at this point he realized that the hatred between the Muslims and the Serbs was so great that there was little hope for any kind of peaceful solution. Its important that we get good information. Americans tend to make really good decisions if they have the facts. Unfortunatly, during Viet Nam, Americans were the target of a steady stream of disinformation and they were confused about the situation. We really need to keep clear minds right now in order to avoid making bad decisions. -John

To: Emile Vidrine who wrote (5563)	4/26/1999 10:29:00 PM
From: George Papadopoulos	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 17770

That was a great post to read...thought provoking...PR guys saying "We are not paid to be MORAL" Thanks

To: Emile Vidrine who wrote (5563)	4/27/1999 1:38:00 AM
From: Moonglow	Respond to of 17770

What? You mean that's why I first thought of the events in Germany when I first started hearing about Bosnia? Oh gosh...I didn't know that. And here all this time I thought it was because of the book, "Zlata's Diary." Thank you so much for enlightening me as to how my opinion was formed! LOL! Emile, you give the most fascinating mental images to me. I kind of picture you like a serious little train just trying to get up the mountain. Did you know that I found out when I was 10 years old that some of my father's cousins were officers in the SS? Kind of threw me into shock, I can tell you. I thought all SS men were MONSTERS...and then to find out that I was related to some of them! I had a hard time dealing with the stories about them as told by their sister as to what nice, sweet boys they were. So....why am I telling you this? I don't know. They were killed though...in the Russian front. I gotta go to bed. I'm becoming as weird as you! Hahahaha! Juanita