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Meanwhile, Iraq's "information minister" says that US troops are comitting suicide in droves as they are repelled by the overwhelming force of the Saddamites...
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MichaeltheGreat
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mooning the house that Ruth built.
Oct 1999
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Originally posted by Lincoln
No. The BBC is too far right as well. We want a true radical leftist news organization to give us the news or we won't believe it! |
 I wonder if Lincoln can post anymore without trolling about "leftists?"
Fox is nothing special, certainly not worthy of the sacred cow status some would give it. There's no room for "opinion" in reporting a factual matter (i.e. the presence or absense of uprisings). It IS, or it ISN'T. Ideology doesn't enter into the equation. So far that I've seen and heard, these are second hand reports of what's reported by ME news agencies, so the real "news" issue is whether they're generally reliable and whether these reports are accurate. 50 western news agencies of any ideological slant quoting the same source won't make a bit of difference as to whether that source is accurate or not.
Assuming there are uprisings, this is a big "so what?"
One of several old infantryman's adages is "don't draw fire, it really pisses off your neighbors" Just because people don't want a few fedayeen in their neighborhood doesn't mean anything about their ideology, especially wrt welcoming the US. They may simply not want the fighting to come to their neighborhoods and their homes.
The smart money now for anti-US types is to go to ground and discontinue resistance. Nobody is going to eject the US forces, all they're going to do is get killed and lose future power. The thing to do is let things get into a relatively quiet occupation phase, and then either go into low-intensity guerilla operations, or start working on your coup conspiracy against the future Iraqi government.
"The end" is nowhere near in sight. We've got billions of dollars and months, if not years, of occupation ahead, with all sorts of opportunities to do things right, or **** up royally.
Meanwhile, what really happened today and why and how is something we'll likely figure out in, oh, a year or two. 
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Macedonia - Sovereign country north of Greece.
Dec 2002
time: 05:27
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Originally posted by MichaeltheGreat
I wonder if Lincoln can post anymore without trolling about "leftists?"
Fox is nothing special, certainly not worthy of the sacred cow status some would give it. There's no room for "opinion" in reporting a factual matter (i.e. the presence or absense of uprisings). It IS, or it ISN'T. Ideology doesn't enter into the equation. So far that I've seen and heard, these are second hand reports of what's reported by ME news agencies, so the real "news" issue is whether they're generally reliable and whether these reports are accurate. 50 western news agencies of any ideological slant quoting the same source won't make a bit of difference as to whether that source is accurate or not.
Assuming there are uprisings, this is a big "so what?"
One of several old infantryman's adages is "don't draw fire, it really pisses off your neighbors" Just because people don't want a few fedayeen in their neighborhood doesn't mean anything about their ideology, especially wrt welcoming the US. They may simply not want the fighting to come to their neighborhoods and their homes.
The smart money now for anti-US types is to go to ground and discontinue resistance. Nobody is going to eject the US forces, all they're going to do is get killed and lose future power. The thing to do is let things get into a relatively quiet occupation phase, and then either go into low-intensity guerilla operations, or start working on your coup conspiracy against the future Iraqi government.
"The end" is nowhere near in sight. We've got billions of dollars and months, if not years, of occupation ahead, with all sorts of opportunities to do things right, or **** up royally.
Meanwhile, what really happened today and why and how is something we'll likely figure out in, oh, a year or two. |
wow mike, ur like reely sm4rt er sumthing
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