Iraqi makes an interesting observation
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Iraqi makes an interesting observation
| Fri, 04-16-2004 - 4:58pm |
Iraqi blogger:
I've been visiting the BBC Arabic site in the last few days and I found a forum where people from many Arab countries –including Iraq- post their opinions about some hot topics, the main of those is Iraq and terrorism of course. I wasn't surprised to see that most Arabs (especially from Egypt, Palestine, Sudan, Saudi Arabia and Syria) are forming one side of the debates while Iraqis and people from the rest of the gulf countries are taking the other side...
http://iraqthemodel.blogspot.com/archives/2004_04_01_iraqthemodel_archive.html#108204752656211513
I've been visiting the BBC Arabic site in the last few days and I found a forum where people from many Arab countries –including Iraq- post their opinions about some hot topics, the main of those is Iraq and terrorism of course. I wasn't surprised to see that most Arabs (especially from Egypt, Palestine, Sudan, Saudi Arabia and Syria) are forming one side of the debates while Iraqis and people from the rest of the gulf countries are taking the other side...
http://iraqthemodel.blogspot.com/archives/2004_04_01_iraqthemodel_archive.html#108204752656211513

Have you ever noticed that the press never interviews Iraqi's who now live here? I've heard them on talk radio voice their frustration with the one-sided coverage of this. I heard an Iraqi the other day say they are reporting each child that dies on the news now during this war but were silent when Saddam was killing thousands a day.
That's why I post sources little used by the mainstream press like independent newspapers and websites. Another good source is the military blogs. If the mainstream press has its way regarding Iraq, they would preach doom and gloom ad nauseum. Oh, wait. They do that already.
The former Lt. Smash is keeping up with the troops still in the sandbox:
http://www.lt-smash.us
Healing Iraq has a good soldier blogroll and an Iraqi one, too.
http://www.healingiraq.blogspot.com/
Renee
>"they are reporting each child that dies on the news now during this war but were silent when Saddam was killing thousands a day."<
>"The pictures of the dead and injured are as striking as those of the abducted foreigners. But we must not forget this: during Saddam's terror there were no cameras to capture the images of the dead, the tortured and the mutilated... Nobody can really want the Americans to hand the country over to the Iraqis and come home. The upshot would be unimaginable, bloody chaos, worse than anything that we are currently having to watch."<
Commentary in Bild-Zeitung - Germany
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World press despair over Iraq.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3617889.stm