only the bad news gets reported on Iraq

knowbody0

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Tue Jun-28-05 04:25 PM
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only the bad news gets reported on Iraq

so show us some good news. show happy, showered, air conditioned school children in a cafeteria eating chicken, rice and 2 fruits. show us the farmers harvesting their crops, the fishermen bringing in their full nets. show us Babylon and the street markets bustling with vendors and customers. SHOW US!

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kittenpants

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Tue Jun-28-05 04:27 PM
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1. they never report on all the cars that DON'T blow up!

from the Daily Show last night

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smoogatz

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Tue Jun-28-05 04:30 PM
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3. Funny reference

After the Tet offensive, some General actually complained that Walter Cronkite never reported on all the parts of Saigon that weren't on fire. Good on Jon Stewart for remembering.

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wakeme2008

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Tue Jun-28-05 04:27 PM
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2. Show us people in Bagdad with electrice 24/ 7 and good water all the

time... Not asking a lot...

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lapfog_1

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Tue Jun-28-05 04:32 PM
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5. Screw that, just show someone outside the Green Zone

simply walking down the street...

Or someone just driving a car between the airport and downtown.

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The_Casual_Observer

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Tue Jun-28-05 04:32 PM
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4. "Building Schools" They used to have reports about this until

the press realized that they weren't building anything, simply putting on a thin coat of paint and replacing some window casements and charging the government millions per location.

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bluestateguy

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Tue Jun-28-05 04:38 PM
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6. People who say that can find what they are looking for at FOX

and the rest of us can continue living in the real world.

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brettdale

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Tue Jun-28-05 04:41 PM
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7. CNN INTL

Is whoring it up this week, they are showing cyber cafes in Iraq.

Ourlocal newpaper though showed something that the USA media will NEVER show.

It was a picture of USA soliders in a room with cabel television, they were watching hard core porn, and sitting in the room with them were young kids!

This was about one year ago, they werent messing with the kids, but they probably should of thrown them out of the room.

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stanwyck

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Tue Jun-28-05 04:48 PM
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8. A woman said this to my son

when he was home on leave the first time from Iraq. (he returned to Iraq in February). "The media isn't showing the good stuff". She kept pressing him to affirm her belief that so much good is being done there...and not being reported.
He didn't know this woman, only that she was a business associate of mine, so he was polite and said, repeatedly, that he really didn't like to discuss his tour while he was home.
"I'm just glad to be home". She didn't get the hint.

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knowbody0

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Tue Jun-28-05 04:52 PM
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9. im glad your son is home

hopefully OUT of the military.

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stanwyck

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Tue Jun-28-05 05:13 PM
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17. No. He's back in Iraq

for his second tour.
He's scheduled to be home in September. He has two more years.

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knowbody0

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Tue Jun-28-05 05:17 PM
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19. how difficult this must be for you.

there are just no words.

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dogday

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Tue Jun-28-05 04:57 PM
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10. The Good News is there is no feces in the water

but alas, I cannot say that as they don't have clean water anymore....

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charlyvi

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Tue Jun-28-05 04:58 PM
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11. It's a war.

How much good news can there be?

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Kraklen

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Tue Jun-28-05 05:00 PM
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dupe

Edited on Tue Jun-28-05 05:00 PM by Kraklen

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Kraklen

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Tue Jun-28-05 05:00 PM
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12. trupe

Edited on Tue Jun-28-05 05:00 PM by Kraklen

Why does that keep happening?

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Kraklen

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Tue Jun-28-05 05:00 PM
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13. Yeah, it's like 9-11.

The liberal media only reported the bad stuff then too.

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Dr Fate

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Tue Jun-28-05 05:00 PM
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14. The "good news" is that we fight them there so we dont have to do it here

"Excuse me- do you mind if I use your neighborhood as my battlefield?"

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knowbody0

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Tue Jun-28-05 05:06 PM
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15. that is the most disrespectful phrase.

yet no one calls him on it. like fingernails on a chalkboard!
the other one that rips my sack is "these peopls chop the heads off people" WTF does a cluster bomb do? and how bout a little depleted uranium for your womb?

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radwriter0555

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Tue Jun-28-05 05:08 PM
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16. HEY! I wanna see those photos TOO! After all, those EMBEDDED REPORTERS

should be reporting the truth, right?

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Ripley

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Tue Jun-28-05 05:15 PM
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18. I remember a CSPAN caller about a year ago...

He said his grandson was in Iraq and he told him that they found vast underground networks in the sand and his CO just KNEW they were going to find the motherlode of WMD's. The grandson swore to his family that they were going to destroy the weapons to keep America safe.

I remember how emphatic and honest sounding the grandfather sounded.

I wonder if he and his grandson feel rage, shame, hatred or anything like that towards these liars now.

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ProfessorGAC

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Tue Jun-28-05 05:19 PM
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20. Answer: No

People like that are already a lost cause. They will never admit they were wrong.
The Professor

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knowbody0

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Tue Jun-28-05 05:19 PM
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21. they take an oath to never speak badly of the emperor

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Ripley

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Tue Jun-28-05 05:23 PM
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22. I know, but even dummies don't like to be duped.

No one likes being lied to and manipulated. I think they're all in deep denial and I hope idiotboy tries to pull more wool over their eyes tonight and it is the tipping point.

They might not admit it, but they'll turn on his ass eventually.

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knowbody0

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Tue Jun-28-05 05:26 PM
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23. i get a vision of them stomping him to death

must be time for my nap

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stanwyck

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Tue Jun-28-05 05:31 PM
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26. A woman who works with my husband

claims that our military actually found the WMD under the sand...and the reason this hasn't been reported is, get this, "they were just so horrible and worse than anyone imagined that if the news got out, there would be worldwide panic."
This woman makes six figures a year.
The mind boggles.

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jim3775

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Tue Jun-28-05 05:27 PM
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24. Chicken, rice and 2 fruits...

sounds nice, too bad they dont get to lay in the sun in the tropics like those lucky enemy combatants in Guantanamo. :sarcasm:

Btw, that sarcasm smiley is to obvious, could someone come up with a sarcastic sarcasm smiley?

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cynatnite

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Tue Jun-28-05 05:27 PM
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25. I for one believe more bad needs to be reported

With the large supply of photos across the internet documenting the horrors it's obvious the real truth of the war is being ignored.

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knowbody0

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Tue Jun-28-05 05:32 PM
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27. three days of reality

would put amerikans in shock. they have no idea.

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