--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Now that would be hard to know. But you also want to ask the question under > what circumstances were the civilians killed and by whom? Were they killed by > accident as collateral damage so to speak in an attempt to create a greater > good or were they killed on purpose just to create terror and scare people > away from this crazy notion of freedom and democracy for all. And Why are so > many coming from so many different countries to take part in the killing of > Iraqi civilians in an attempt to stop them from determining their own > destiny?Are the Terrorists building or rebuilding hospitals and clinics for the Iraqis > as the United States Army is doing. Are the terrorist doing ANYTHING to ease > the suffering of Iraqis or rebuild their nation?The answer is NO. They have > nothing positive to offer. This is do or die for them. The last thing they > want is a strong democracy in that part of the world because it just might > spread and where would that leave them?So to come full circle the US may have > killed a lot of innocent people by accident in a war trying to achieve a greater > goal but the terrorist kill civilians simply to terrorize. <snip>
All this makes for great propoganda, but who is to say it is the truth? I have read eyewitness reports from Iraqi civilians and others painting quite a different story -- that the US Army has purposely targeted hospitals and killed doctors and patients, as well as non-embedded journalists, and has been methodically and randomly terrorizing and killing civilians. Is it true? And again, as for democracy, let's begin at home, and open an inquiry into why the 2004 exit polls showed Kerry winning by the same percentage (or more) than that that was eventually given to Bush (not to mention the non-election of 2000). Statistically this has been shown to be virtually impossible. Exit-poll discrepancies like these have always been taken as evidence of election fraud in every other country, including most recently Ukraine. Why were our "fair and balanced" media all over the Ukraine results, while barely mentioning our own? Or is this whole thing just another story? My point is, you seem to be wholeheartedly swallowing everything that the traditional media are dishing out about "we-good; they- bad." I am guessing that if a foreign country invaded the USA under the same pretexts we gave against Iraq, most of us would now be "rebels" and "insurgents," and not overly inclined to believe the invader's words when they don't match the deeds. Had you heard that only 5 people now own our major media? (IS this true?) To me it has become pretty obvious that they are *all* feeding us pretty much the same story, and that story has become excessively censored and biassed (or maybe halfassed). Or maybe that has always been the case. Or is this yet another story? I don't know :-) To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/