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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