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~ H. L. Mencken

So we can’t believe the ‘liberal’ media?

Posted: April 10th, 2006 | Author: Aaron | Filed under: middle east, uk, usa, world |

I’m no left-wing apologist, but I equally despise the ignorant right wing nuts, who still argue Iraq is going well. You know the ones, those who say you can’t trust the BBC, or this or that newspaper.

Well if we can’t trust mainstream news sources, because they’re too ‘liberal’, then why the hell should we trust the nonsense rightist reocon rags they read?

Hmm?

Maybe we should garner some primary accounts? Maybe someone who supported the war, but actually has to deal with fallout each and everyday?

…if we really are one of the best-educated societies in the Mid-East why do we keep making mistakes we made in the past?

There is only one answer, it was all a mistake. Those educated Iraqis were already out of the country long before the US invasion and they were smart enough not to play with the American and British government when they started their war games. The bits and pieces of the Iraqi educated middle class has been living in denial for the last three years believing that the reasonable Iraqi will rise again. The last blow to this was the crush of Ayad Allawi’s Iraqi List in the last elections and the total exclusion of his party from the negotiations that are going on now. Yes Allawi is a US stooge but he is a secular stooge, which I prefer to having someone like SCIRI who play the same game but with Iran.

That’s Salam Pax. This was a man who once said:

“Anyway, all that doesn’t matter now. Saddam is gone, thanks to you. Was it worth it? Be assured it was. We all know that it got to a point where we would have never been rid of Saddam without foreign intervention; I just wish it would have been a bit better planned.”

But now says:

Today we celebrate a new holiday in Iraq. It’s Democracy day. On this day last year we voted for the first time after the war.
Now give me a moment to do my Happy Dance to celebrate the fact that we have a couple of religious extremists sitting in parliament and deciding what my future will look like.

Everyone can download Skype. It’s simple. Find some Iraqis and talk to them, that’s what these guys did.

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2 Comments on “So we can’t believe the ‘liberal’ media?”

  1. 1 Richard W. Symonds said at 9:47 pm on April 11th, 2006:

    Yes, speak to those ‘on the ground’, but to save time you really must keep up with the latest from Noam Chomsky.

  2. 2 tyger said at 11:47 am on April 13th, 2006:

    Hi Richard,

    I have mixed views of Chomsky.

    As a linguistics professor he is unmatched, in my opinion, and it was in linguistics, while at University, I first came across him.

    And I also agree with much of Chomsky’s views as regards imperialism, and some elements of his historical perspective. I’m concerned in regard to his ambiguity over the Balkan Conflict, although I accept he is oft misrepresented. I also differ with Chomsky as regard his morality, but not always.