Status: RO Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2003 11:42:41 -0800 Subject: COWed news networks not showing Baghdad market dead From: Tim May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I'm scanning all four COWed networks--CNN, Fox, MSNBC, CNBC--for images from the downtown Baghdad market and housing area strike. Supposedly Al Jazeera is showing the images of dismembered children, frantic searches under rubble, body parts blown against walls. Estimates are of 50 dead, though this may change. ...
The BBCA evening news hosted by the lovely Mishal Hussein showed it all. Grown men screaming and crying over lost loved ones, a worried man muttering "Allah Akhbar" in clinging hope, a ten year old boy weeping near a puddle of blood on a stone stairway, frantic women screaming in hospital hallways, a child in hospital minus two legs. They were not targeted deliberately but that doesn't seem to console them.
The specific operation underway now called "Operation Iraqi Freedom" is one small part of a much larger operation called "The Project for a New American Century." This project aims, among other things, to depose brutal totalitarian dictators if and only if they make the mistake of opposing the interests of the U.S. government and its corporate partners without first acquiring nuclear weapons. The upside of the Project is that some brutal totalitarian dictators might possibly be replaced with the sort of kinder and gentler dictators we enjoy here in America. Which is good as far as it goes. Fewer people get thrown feet-first into plastic shredders, for example.
I believe this Project will make more Arabs rally in support of firm Islamic government, reject Western culture and ideals, join radically anti-American militias, and commit more attacks against Americans. This threat will make more Americans rally in support of the U.S. government and gladly throw votes, dollars, and freedoms at the feet of those who promise security. This widespread popular support will enable the U.S. government to employ military tactics both domestically and abroad for the stated purpose of enhancing security. Of course, war is a racket, and the racket here is to expand the power and wealth of the government and its corporate partners.
-- Patrick http://fexl.com
