On Thu, Mar 13, 2003 at 11:22:09AM -0800, Eric Cordian wrote: > Sunder writes: > > > Should war in the Gulf commence, the Pentagon proposes to take > > radical new steps in media relations - 'unauthorised' journalists will be > > shot at. Speaking on The Sunday Show on Ireland's RTE1 last sunday veteran > > war reporter Kate Adie said she had been warned by a senior Pentagon > > official that uplinks, i.e. TV broadcasts or satellite phones, that are > > detected by US aircraft are likely to be fired on. > > This is nothing new. Radio and TV stations and other "unauthorized" > sources of information are always first on the target list whenever the US > starts a war. >
But its still a violation of the geneva conventions to kill civilians, lets not forget. Just like in Serbia... http://www.balkanpeace.org/lan/lan03.shtml Our government is just full of war criminals. Thus their refusal to be in the ICC founding in the Hague this week. > I think the Pentagon spokeshomo put it this way. "Propaganda outlets ARE > military targets." Propaganda being anything not released by the > Pentagon, of course. of course. > > Have you seen this lovely new media room in Qatar that Hollywood is > building as a set for Iraq war briefings? > > <"In front of the stage, two 70-inch projection screens and five > 50-inch plasma screens will flash maps, graphics and crystal-clear > video images of war-zone action. In the background will hang a > soft-focus elongated map of the world, as if to imply that the > entire globe is united behind the United States.> > > <"I like to achieve a level of detail that makes it difficult to > distinguish a set from reality," Mr. Allison recently told the > Times Union newspaper in Albany, N.Y.> > > > http://www.globetechnology.com/servlet/ArticleNews/gtnews/TGAM/20030312/UTVTV M i hadn't heard about that. thanks. makes the bile rise in my throat. -- michael cardenas | lead software engineer, lindows.com hyperpoem.net | GNU/Linux software developer people.debian.org/~mbc | encrypted email preferred "The fundamental delusion of humanity is to suppose that I am here and you are out there." - Yasutani Roshi [demime 0.97c removed an attachment of type application/pgp-signature]
