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clem_c_rock Donating Member (989 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-21-05 04:23 PM
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NPR: Falluja is the safest city in Iraq.
Thanks NPR - funny how, when you napalm and level a city, destroy everyone's home and kill thousands of the population it's now a safe city.

Great interviews w/ embedded troops. "The people look to us for safety and are returning to their city by the thousands".

Thanks NPR. You can surely bet I'll be sending you a check.

Keep of the great lies you fucks.
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ananda Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-21-05 04:26 PM
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1. safe?
Well, first, is there anything left of Falluja that would make it possible to call it a city any more?

Secondly, what about chem weapon residue and DU? I wouldn't go near the place.

Sue
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clem_c_rock Donating Member (989 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-21-05 04:28 PM
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5. No, No - everything's great in Falluja
Just ask NPR.

Guess what! They're making a movie about Falluja.

Think of the great economic revenue it will generate for us in Hollywood!
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Roland99 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-21-05 04:27 PM
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2. I guess the warmongers are right then.
Let's nuke all of Iraq. It will be the safest place on earth!
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tom_paine Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-21-05 04:28 PM
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3. "They make a wasteland and call it a 'peace'."
Written about the original Roman Empire...not ours.

But it's funny how little things change from Empire to Empire.
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whistle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-21-05 04:28 PM
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4. Falluja was a city of 300,000+ now has less than 3,000 persons
...the next move is to "plow the bricks back into the sand and then sow salt on the land" like the Romans did 2,150 years ago with Carthage. Hey and if that works, there are a number of other cities in Iraq where the same Negroponte solution using the U.S. military can be applied. What fucks!
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MARALE Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-21-05 04:28 PM
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6. OMFG, No way!!
Tell me they did not say this. This has to be one of the stupidest things that I have ever heard.

Wow, can't think af anything else to say.

:puke: :mad: :puke: :mad: :puke: :mad: :puke: :mad: :puke: :mad: :puke: :mad: :puke: :mad: :puke: :mad:
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jayfish Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-21-05 04:30 PM
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7. Slightly Different Take Here.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2005-03/21/content_2722092.htm

<SNIP>
FALLUJAH/SAMARRA, Iraq, March 20 (Xinhuanet,by Jiang Xiaofeng, Li Jizhi) -- Two years after theUS-led war on Iraq, urban life in Iraq's insurgency-ridden Sunni Triangle has been paralyzed due to the hard-core military operations.

Only a small number of some 200,000 citizens that fled Fallujah ahead of a US massive assault have returned to the war-battered city, residing in partially opened neighborhoods and leaving otherparts occupied by the American troops.
</SNIP>

Jay
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clem_c_rock Donating Member (989 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-21-05 04:42 PM
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14. I'm so livid - the next person that tries to tell me how great NPR is
Is going to get a kick in the nads.
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jayfish Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-21-05 04:43 PM
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16. Bu, But, But They Are Liberal.
:puke:

Jay
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Redstone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-21-05 04:30 PM
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8. Of course it is!
How can you have any crimes when there's nobody there to commit them?

Redstone
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Tierra_y_Libertad Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-21-05 04:33 PM
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9. Auschwitz was pretty safe too..if you happened to be German.
We stopped contributing to NPR 2 years ago after 3 decades of being supporters.
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clem_c_rock Donating Member (989 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-21-05 04:44 PM
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17. I listen to this piece of shit over 40 hours a week
I'm sorry - I don't consider it much better than Fox.

Good for you on cancelling youf funding.
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Frederik Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-21-05 04:35 PM
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10. How wonderful
Iris scans, curfews at 2100 and no cars equals security. The wise men in the Department of Justice who are presently working on Patriot Act 2.1 are taking notes.
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alcibiades_mystery Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-21-05 04:38 PM
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11. Tacitus: Auferre trucidare rapere falsis nominibus imperium, atque
ubi solitudinem faciunt pacem appellant.

Plunder, murder and rapine they falsely name empire, and wherever they make a desert, they call it peace...
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Botany Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-21-05 04:39 PM
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12. I agree it is safe and fine so .......
...... *, Wolfowitz, Rummy, Rice, Franks, Hannity, and so on should go there
ASAP and take a walking tour.

:grr:
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Minstrel Boy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-21-05 04:40 PM
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13. unfreakin' believable n/t
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The_Casual_Observer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-21-05 04:42 PM
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15. For now, only for now.
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aint_no_life_nowhere Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-21-05 04:45 PM
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18. Chernobyl I guess was pretty crime-free too
after it became uninhabitable and there was probably very little looting in Hiroshima or Nagasaki after everything was destroyed.
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EFerrari Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-21-05 04:45 PM
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19. Do you have a link or the name of the show or the time.
This doesn't stand.
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clem_c_rock Donating Member (989 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-21-05 04:46 PM
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21. I just heard it about 20 minutes ago 4:30 eastern time.
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EFerrari Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-21-05 04:58 PM
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23. Thanks so much. n/t
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OneBlueSky Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-21-05 04:46 PM
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20. of course it's safe . . . there's no place left to hide . . .
that's what happens when you level a city and kill thousands of its citizens . . .
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AP Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-21-05 04:51 PM
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22. And syphilis is the most pleasent of the venereal diseases.
The safest city in Iraq. Now there's a low bar to clear.
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EFerrari Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-21-05 05:07 PM
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24. What about just emailing them and asking if we heard right?
Edited on Mon Mar-21-05 05:07 PM by sfexpat2000
Disbelief is often a finer tool than fury :)

ombudsman@npr.org

My note:

A friend just reported to me that he heard someone on NPR say "Fallujah is the safest city in Iraq" today, Monday, 3/21, at about 4:30 EST.

Is there some way I could verify this report? It's hard to believe that leveled city contaminated with depleted uranium whose civilian population has been napalmed could qualify for that rank. Unless "safe" has taken on a new meaning?

Many thanks,
(contact info including street addy & phone number)
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Disturbed Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-21-05 05:14 PM
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25. Dogs eating corpses of humans makes this city ...
safe.
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EFerrari Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-21-05 05:20 PM
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26. I know. Saw it on warblogging shortly after it happened
But giving NPR a clear statement that we know they're full of it can't hurt.

Would you email, too?

The message is getting clearer and clearer. Internet news readers have no qualms about calling the corporate media on their BS.

Help me keep up the clarity :evilgrin:
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clem_c_rock Donating Member (989 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-21-05 05:33 PM
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27. Exactly, just wrote them right now
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EFerrari Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-21-05 05:37 PM
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28. Thanks & KICK!
We don't let them slide. Email NPR as ask them if they had the TEMERITY to say "Fallujah is the safest city in Iraq".

Ombudsman@npr.org

Takes about 10 seconds.
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clem_c_rock Donating Member (989 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-21-05 06:19 PM
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29. They keep running this story. Second time I've heard it in 2 hours
Edited on Mon Mar-21-05 06:25 PM by clem_c_rock
And it's just the happiest of tales.

Warm fuzzies for the Iraqis.
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bloom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-21-05 06:21 PM
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30. that is disgusting...eom
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