> I could not disagree more with this ultra-worn "liberal media" statement,
> because in fact, the administration/press has been exactly the opposite
for
> this war.  Average Americans, radio talk show hosts, political speakers,
> actors, country western groups, you name it --have endured incredible
media
> criticism and have been very publicly blackballed for saying "anything
> negative" about this war.  Then we have Ashcroft saying to the 'Senate'
that
> any American who had the nerve to have a different opinion about the war
> than the administration, (and I paraphrase--although I have his nauseating
> speech written down), were "non peace lovers"--AND "scare[ed] peace loving
> people."  In addition, Ashcroft continued re: dissenting Americans that
> "your tactics [aid] terrorists," AND "[erode] our national enemies." Of
> course the subtext of this speech/"order" is that the administration
"should
> not be questioned in any way."  Liberal indeed.
>
> Also, I think a distinction needs to be made between the
> "military/administration" and our boys doing their best they can and doing
> as they are told.  Regarding the looting, when our "liberating missiles"
> destroyed institutions that could possibly help these people get back on
> their feet by realizing some type of national identity, how ironic that we
> criticized any craziness that followed.  Why in the world should we be
> surprised when the people, most who live in abject poverty anyway, react
to
> seeing their world blown up by going a little mad.  As for the military
not
> helping, or not helping much (and again, I don't blame "the boys" because
> they under command)--America has traditionally been ambivalent or worse,
to
> central or eastern Asians, Islamists, etc-- fighting among themselves and
> thus helping to destroy the "freedom" the administration recently so
> decidedly pursued.  In fact, historically, America has aided, over and
over,
> with weapons and money, rebellions/wars in central and eastern Asia to aid

> our own corporate interests here--we have to keep our profit motive
intact.
>
> What is forgotten, over and over again, is that a people who have nothing
or
> little to lose, poverty-stricken with no possibilities, people who have
lost
> what little national identity they had left, these are the people who and
> participate in terrorist groups anyway.
>
> Regards to all,
> Rhonda Morrison
>
>
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> The US press is very liberal as a whole and
> doesn't like Bush, Ashcroft, Rumsfeld or getting into this war but rallied
> around
> the troops like everyone else.
>

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