Comments on: The news about the news from Iraq http://bookwormroom.wordpress.com/2007/08/27/the-news-about-the-news-from-iraq/ She escaped from the belly of the liberal beast Thu, 17 Dec 2009 10:52:35 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: ymarsakar http://bookwormroom.wordpress.com/2007/08/27/the-news-about-the-news-from-iraq/#comment-73820 ymarsakar Fri, 31 Aug 2007 16:10:27 +0000 http://bookwormroom.wordpress.com/2007/08/27/the-news-about-the-news-from-iraq/#comment-73820 <B>I have over a thousand photos that I got from a medic in Baghdad.</b> Just keep looking at those thousands of photos, Where. Eventually it might or might not crack your mind. Just fair warning. Even doctors have to take a break from the carnage of the ER room once in awhile. I have over a thousand photos that I got from a medic in Baghdad.

Just keep looking at those thousands of photos, Where. Eventually it might or might not crack your mind. Just fair warning.

Even doctors have to take a break from the carnage of the ER room once in awhile.

]]> By: ymarsakar http://bookwormroom.wordpress.com/2007/08/27/the-news-about-the-news-from-iraq/#comment-73819 ymarsakar Fri, 31 Aug 2007 16:08:31 +0000 http://bookwormroom.wordpress.com/2007/08/27/the-news-about-the-news-from-iraq/#comment-73819 Where is obviously wracked by guilt and depression from seeing the costs of war. That doesn't mean he should try to spread the misery around, though, even if monkeys do it. Where is obviously wracked by guilt and depression from seeing the costs of war. That doesn’t mean he should try to spread the misery around, though, even if monkeys do it.

]]> By: Bookworm http://bookwormroom.wordpress.com/2007/08/27/the-news-about-the-news-from-iraq/#comment-73659 Bookworm Fri, 31 Aug 2007 03:35:22 +0000 http://bookwormroom.wordpress.com/2007/08/27/the-news-about-the-news-from-iraq/#comment-73659 What does the number of wounded have to do with anything in the above post? If you keep to topic, it makes discussion easier. What does the number of wounded have to do with anything in the above post? If you keep to topic, it makes discussion easier.

]]> By: where'smyamerica? http://bookwormroom.wordpress.com/2007/08/27/the-news-about-the-news-from-iraq/#comment-73655 where'smyamerica? Fri, 31 Aug 2007 03:25:52 +0000 http://bookwormroom.wordpress.com/2007/08/27/the-news-about-the-news-from-iraq/#comment-73655 You can't be serious. Talk to someone who has just come back from a tour of duty. I don't know what your friend does over there. Has he fired a weapon? I have over a thousand photos that I got from a medic in Baghdad. You should see them. Mangled, wounded, amputated, you name it. Over 27,000 seriously wounded American soldiers to date. You don't think they might be critical. Watch your best friend get blown up. Then watch the next ten. Come on. You can’t be serious. Talk to someone who has just come back from a tour of duty. I don’t know what your friend does over there. Has he fired a weapon? I have over a thousand photos that I got from a medic in Baghdad. You should see them. Mangled, wounded, amputated, you name it. Over 27,000 seriously wounded American soldiers to date. You don’t think they might be critical. Watch your best friend get blown up. Then watch the next ten. Come on.

]]> By: ymarsakar http://bookwormroom.wordpress.com/2007/08/27/the-news-about-the-news-from-iraq/#comment-72688 ymarsakar Mon, 27 Aug 2007 22:18:53 +0000 http://bookwormroom.wordpress.com/2007/08/27/the-news-about-the-news-from-iraq/#comment-72688 Whether Al Jazeera is more favorable to us or not is debatable. What they do have is more limitations. It is harder to craft forgeries when the real thing is so close at hand. This is true for Al jazeera and any other media organization in the Middle East, and especially Iraq. Even if they wanted to craft some lies or whatever, the Iraqis would know instantly that it isn't right. Or not completely right. Here in the US, it is easier to create forgeries and pass them off as real. It isn't as easy as it might have once been in such olden days as Vietnam, mind you, but it is still easier than for the Iraqi media and perhaps the Ayrab media as a whole. Whether Al Jazeera is more favorable to us or not is debatable. What they do have is more limitations.

It is harder to craft forgeries when the real thing is so close at hand. This is true for Al jazeera and any other media organization in the Middle East, and especially Iraq. Even if they wanted to craft some lies or whatever, the Iraqis would know instantly that it isn’t right. Or not completely right. Here in the US, it is easier to create forgeries and pass them off as real.

It isn’t as easy as it might have once been in such olden days as Vietnam, mind you, but it is still easier than for the Iraqi media and perhaps the Ayrab media as a whole.

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