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GuyJean wrote:I'm curious what other FG's use for their online sources for the war.
CNN's coverage is not, as some would have it, propaganda - it's a bit more complex than that. But what is clear already is that CNN, with its omnipresent but anaemic coverage of the war, is losing the journalistic battle. It presents the strange combination of a constant flow of information and a raging lack of curiosity.
ramchop wrote:GuyJean wrote:I'm curious what other FG's use for their online sources for the war.
Big Booger wrote:But it does show you the other side and what they are going through.
GuyJean wrote:I'm curious what other FG's use for their online sources for the war.
cstaylor wrote:Can't anyone see this for what it is? The elite Sunni minority knows they're in the doghouse if America and England pull this off
Iraq has a population of 22,219,289 as of 1997, of whom about 77 percent were Arabs and 19 percent Kurds. A small percentage were Turkmen, Persians, and Assyrians. Almost all Iraqis are Muslims]
The Sunnis aren't the bad guys, Saddam is. If the Sunnis are supporting Saddam that doesn't make them inherently bad, just misled.cstaylor wrote:so for the sake of their own skins they're putting up a huge fight... I think I would too if I was a member of the privileged elite, about to have all of my possesions stripped and redistributed.
cstaylor wrote:There's a world of difference between REALLY DISLIKE and GASSING citizens, don't you think?
cstaylor wrote:Can't anyone see this for what it is?
ramchop wrote:The Sunnis aren't the bad guys, Saddam is. If the Sunnis are supporting Saddam that doesn't make them inherently bad, just misled
cstaylor wrote:Maybe I should have been a little more specific: Ba'ath party card-carrying members, who are predominantly Sunni, are going to fight to the finish on this one.
Let's hope one of them offs the Husseins soon and puts an end to the senseless bloodshed.ramchop wrote:You may be right, but I doubt they're fighting for their wealth and possessions. I'd wager they believe they're fighting for their lives.
Rob Pongi wrote:Now they are also saying that the Iraq military may resort to chemical and/or biological weapons as a last resort
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