NP? a view from Europe

Doug Millison millison at online-journalist.com
Tue Nov 27 19:48:45 CST 2001


"Morris"
 >His skewed
>anti-American propaganda

I suggest you learn a bit about propaganda before you apply that label,
your ignorance is showing, fq.  Gary Thompson posted a good explanation
back in September.  Chomsky is an interpreter and  critic of US foreign
policy -- he skews things at least as far in his direction as Bush and
other US officials does in theirs -- but not a propagandist.  You could
look it up and why don't you do yourself the favor, you'll have a better
chance to avoid looking dumb in the future.  Or, continue to apply it
incorrectly, but apply it as well to Bush's spokespeople and the US
corporate media that regurgitate the Bush Administration's spin.

Rich -- don't you wonder how those prisoners wound up with those heavy
weapons after surrendering?  The shooting-fish-in-a-barrel still applies,
in my opinion.  At any rate, it makes the US look pretty bad, when our
soldiers on the ground (our Northern Alliance cronies, the ones who are
afraid to occupy the southern part of the country where they are hated even
more than in the north where they raped and pillaged and massacred
innocents prior to the Taliban takeover) lure enemy forces into a
surrender, fail to disarm them, then the US bombs them inside that
fortress...not many hours after Rumsfeld sends out the message "take no
prisoners".  we still don't have enough information to form final
judgements, but so far this one looks like a particularly atrocious war
crime, on top of the garden variety execution of wounded prisoners and
other atrocities the Northern Alliance have left in their wake.





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