Is it possible to actually capture reality? Seems by showing one thing you are NOT showing something else. Anyone care to comment about MSM's coverage of the war and their defense of Laura Ingraham's assertion that they are "balcony bravehearts"?
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Without going on some rant I will put it to you logically so wake up and pay attention!. The truth lies somewhere in between Laura's assertion and MSNBC's (NBC's) assertion that they are always or usually in the field. In other words, they are both right some of the time and wrong some of the time, depending on what particular report they want to reference. Now that's a "fair and balanced" assessment ;)
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You are actually seeing how they will spin it right before your eyes. All the media and anti-war clan has done since these two brave soliders bodies were found is talk about the mutilation, beheading, DNA testing, unnatural barbaric torture, and how only pieces of them were found. It is an absolute disgrace the way this has been covered. Yes, we need to know the realities of war, yes we need to all know this happened but why doesn't the media try to tell us a little bit about these two solidiers and the way they lived their lives. Why not hear more about how they lived. I definately am NOT trying to take away from the deplorable way they died - its outrageous and they need justice but I can't help feeling their deaths have been exploited by the media. As for the way the anti american factions will handle this. The exact way we would expect them to. Justify it with saying that americans kill Iraqi's everyday. Does anyone really think Syria, Iran, UAE, Saudi Arabia cared one bit about the abuse Saddam doled out to his own people? Of course not. No one will ever change Anti American sentiment - what needs to be done is to make them irrelevant. I believe when people come forward and actually condone this type of behavior that people who have even a little bit of intelligience start to disregard them.
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Good link.  Most of us cilvilized people would not approve of any of those methods.  Have you seen this link?\nhttp://www.obsessionthemovie.com/12min.htm\nBTW Urbangenie hasn't seen much news lately since some of that stuff was all over the news all over the world
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First of all, I just have to say I find such vitriol coming out of someone with the screen name 'LuvPinkPuffies' amusing.  More so that you have a desire to see someone murdered live on international television.  Isn't it enough that they've splashed his dead face on every paper and news channel in existence?\n\nI also love how you made the leap from someone pointing out inconsistencies in the report to "you" (whoever that's supposed to be) wanting to negotiate.\n\nOn another point, I think it really demeans the people who fought and died in World War II to compare every person you don't like to Hitler.  Hitler was the greatest threat Democracy ever faced, followed by Soviet Russia.  20 million people died because of Hitler.  For 50 years we lived under the threat of complete annihilation of every life form on the planet, with the possible exceptions of cockroaches and Kieth Richards.  Compared to World War II and the Cold War, the War on Terror is a cakewalk.   Statistically you're more likely to be struck by lightning than killed by a terrorist.  What's more, yes Zarqawi was the head of Al Qaeda in Iraq, but they're only about ten percent of the insurgents.  In the grand scheme of things he wasn't that important, a minor player at best.  I know it's great to have an enemy that we can get strident about again to take out our frustrations on, but stop elevating these guys by comparing them to Hitler.  They don't deserve it.
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It is most gratifying to read such an eloquent discourse and I whole heartedly agree with the thrust of your most erudite question. The thing is, bless'em they're a bit brain washed you know and believe that there is a worldwide conspiracy against them. Paranoia indeed! The extreme right wing proclivities of this nation are a great concern to me and it is causing the polarising, divisive and skewed nature of US politics today. Of course, the really worrying trend, is that those that are hurt most by this type of hysterical, disabling, right wing thinking are the ones that rush to it's defence when it's under threat! Presumably out of some misguided sense of loyalty or patriotism. No, I'm afraid you're right, America needs to learn to play nicely and have a bit of humility. Terrorism is in large part a result of this rigid, militaristic, right wing foreign policy she has dished out over the last 5 or 6 decades and I can't see it stopping anytime soon. Jules, lecturer. Australia.
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I would like to say how completely outraged I am with the New York Times.  When they reveal secret programs aimed at finding terrorist, they put my husband, a US Marine, and the men and women serving with him, at risk.  They don't have a right to endanger my husband's life more than it is.  I agreed with Mr. Daly (on the O'Reilly Factor Friday night) when he said that in order to have liberty we must have secret programs.  Thanks to the left wing media, a secret program is now considered to be a cover-up and dangerous to our civil liberties.  As far as a I am concerned, the left wing is just as bad as the terrorist at the moment.  Shame on the New York Times and all the papers that revealed this program.  God bless America and God bless our troops.
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I think there was more to the high-jacking than we have been told. Why I do not know...There has been a lot of talk about the way the twin towers fell. \nThank you for sending this I have enjoyed.
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Yes,yes, yes.  \n\nYou are going to get a fine example of exactly how closed minded the open minded left is with this question.  \n\nLet's see if a single one actually answers it without some lame *ss comment.\n\nI did not see her recent interviews or read the book to this point.  If it is like her others, it will be filled with well referenced examples so you may check out if you have doubts as to their validity.  \n\nThat makes it about number 9,000,000,000,000 on the liberal best seller list as they have an apparent allergy to facts and obective references.
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I just asked a question about the Montauk Project myself.I read the books.They seem to be very technically correct about a lot of the  things they talk about.So who-ever wrote them wasn't an idiot or a nut making up a story. I believe that the things spoken of in the stories are more than likely possible.Whether or not they actually happened as it is written,or if we really do possess this secret technoIogy, I don't know.In a way though,I kind of hope it isn't completely true,because the story of these projects are filled with abuse and inhuman treatment of human beings in the name of scientific developement and whatever else.
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I watch it and I was shock to see many of the findings. Especially that they have way to mimic peoples voices and just lie and place the blame where it doesn't belong. This day I am sad to for both the victims of WTC and the citizens of both Iraq and Afghanistan and we all need to wake up our freedom is at stake here. Please be careful Andaria. People are gonna try to make all sorts of excuses but the fact remains where is the proof??
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How about videos (right side of the page)?: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/11/17/politics/main656124.shtml?CMP=ILC-SearchStories\n\nHope that helps - enjoy!
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This is what keeps everyone in line who was at least marginally involved.  A LOT of money has been made by those who were involved, first and foremost, and any "truth revelation" would automatically implicate all those contractors (everyone that makes weapons), corporations (airline bailout anyone?), and private owners ($9 billion on the WTC property deal?) that may have had anything to do with it.  Many others were also given promotions despite their negligence on 9/11 for simply going along with the official story, whether they "made it happen" or not.  \n\nMany others have profitted immensely from the resulting fear of terrorism and the wave of nationalism sentiment after the attacks.  Ask any pro-Bush pundit what their book deals are worth, vs the not-for-profit anti-Bush liberals (Michael Moore is an ass and a very big exception).  Ask Fox News what this has meant for their ratings and their advertising value.  A LOT of public personalities owe their very existence to the events of 9/11.  If this truth should be revealed, they would quickly become irrelevant or traitorous.\n\nWhat would it mean for politics?  Both parties would be like on a sinking ship, fingers would get pointed everywhere, and 3rd party candidates might actually suddenly have some pull for better or worse.  Both parties are enjoying their monopoly on political power and the truth would be most upsetting.\n\nWhat would the truth do for the morale of the American people?  Those that fully believed in our benevolent govnernment and have had their simple minds be the subject of propoganda control for years will suddenly wake up and become VERY angry.  These same sheep that the neo-conservatives have been counting on for support will become their most violent opposition.  Fringe groups on all sides will capitalize on this power vacuum created.  Civil war could indeed be a possibility.
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WOW! Although I am not answering this news is too exciting not to put an input in on. I hope so.\n\n\nOkay I searched it and found this:\nhttp://www.cnn.com/2006/SHOWBIZ/Movies/10/20/film.fraggle.reut/index.html\n\n\nITiS TRUE!!
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who did it? well it wasnt the butler in the hallway wilh a candlestick. how many different arab leaders are there in U.A.E.?i wouldnt know.however, it had to be a terrorist group of the arab world. look at the names listed they were all arabic.as for the official story, what we read and saw on the tube was as official as it gets.information concerning this tragic day possibly was edited just to be on the safe side. what i mean is that the story probably had more to it than what was said ,but with the turmoil in the world today, the increasing price of oil and fingers pointed at everyone, why say anything to start trouble? personally i dont think our country is the most advanced in defense or technology.our computers are made up of japans experts and as far as i know our defense systems are made with the same technology. i think there a a few small nations in the world that have come a long way as we have but secrets must be kept.hopefully im wrong but,i have read and surfed the web,i had found many items of interest that are questionable.im not a trouble maker and i think any information gotten will be sufficient enough to sustain my curiosity. i served during vietnam and i enlisted and would do it again. this country is my home and i was proud to serve.
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Especially Michael Moore and his false documentary. For those that don't know:\n\nIraq's arsenal of weapons of mass destruction was not captured by US forces who heroically brought down Saddam Hussein's regime three years ago this week. It vanished before they arrived.\nIsraeli intelligence reported before the US-led invasion that starting in late summer 2002 Saddam's WMD arsenal was shipped by truck convoy to Syria. Recently, documents seized from Iraq after the fall of the regime were released to the public. Those documents revealed that under the direct command of former Russian prime minister and KGB boss Yevgeny Primakov, Russian Spetnaz forces oversaw the transfer of Iraq's WMD to Syria ahead of the US-led invasion. These reports have been corroborated by Saddam's Air Vice Marshall General Georges Sada.\n\nSo rather than being destroyed or secured, Saddam's WMD arsenal was simply moved from one rogue regime with intimate ties to terror organizations to another rogue regime with intimate ties to terror organizations.\n\nOf course, American Media will NOT report this, it will prove Bush right, and then they would look stupid.\n\nMichael Moore, thanks:\nFriday, 23 June 2006 \nWhen News Lies \n\n\nWHEN NEWS LIES\nMedia Complicity and The Iraq War\n\n\nBy Danny Schechter, The News Dissector\n\n\n\nA new book from Danny Schechter offers an up to date indictment of the role media played in promoting and misreporting the war on Iraq. It is an analysis of how and why the media got it wrong that pinpoints the failures of journalism and the collusion of media companies with the Bush Administration. The author of EMBEDDED: Weapons of Mass Deception (Prometheus 2003), an account of the TV coverage of the US invasion, returns with a more comprehensive, updated and insider look at the media complicity that Schechter argues "made the war possible."\n\n\n\n"Most of the anti-war movement focused on the crimes of the Bush Administration ignoring the mainstream media, its far more effective accomplice," says former network producer Danny Schechter (ABC, CNN). "The government orchestrated the war while the media marketed it. You couldn't have one without the other."\n\n\n\nWHEN NEWS LIES includes the feature -length DVD of the prize-winning film WMD (Weapons of Mass Deception). The book will also include the complete script as well as a discussion of the challenges of exposing media with media with a documentary. It chronicles the media war fought alongside the military campaign and the struggle to stand up for truth. \n\nSource(s):\nGoogle it:\n\nSaddam, WMD, Spetsnaz\n\nhttp://www.wmdthefilm.com/mambo/index.ph...
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I actually completely disagree that the media is 'liberal'. I've seen too many highly controversial stories reported on PBS The Newshour that are never shown on network news. \n\nI think the old saying 'liberal media' is just another way the rightwing is manipulating us. They WANT us to think that so that we don't believe the real stuff... like I said some of the stories I have seen on PBS news.\n\nI wish ppl would wake up... not saying you.. but ppl in general and begin to think on their own and search for the whole, complete, real story on things.\n\nBTW, loved your comment on my B. Laden question. Some ppl argue with the truth even when it is staring them in the face.\n\nAlso, capitalism has never worked throughout history for the exact reasons we are seeing develop now.
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Not a shred of proof?  Where the h&ll have you been the last 3 years??!  Wathcing Fox News and nothing else??  \n\nNeither Bushie nor Rummy would know the truth if it bit them in the @ss.\n\nNo sense showing the Mona Lisa to a blind man, I guess...\n\nBTW, life-long Repubican here, until about 4 years ago...  No party affilliation now...