Rumsfeld Says Media Shows Only 'Negative' Side of Iraq War

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http://www.blackanthem.com/World/2005062907.html

Rumsfeld Says Media Shows Only 'Negative' Side of Iraq War

Blackanthem.com, WASHINGTON, D.C., June 29, 2005



Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld took to the airwaves June 27 to clear up what he characterized as "misinformation" by the media about the war in Iraq, telling radio listeners in Kansas City, Mo., that "the news media seem to want to carry the negative."


During an interview with Jerry Agar of KMBZ News Radio 980, who recently visited Iraq for a first-hand look at conditions there, the secretary addressed a "disconnect" between what's really happening in Iraq and what the American public sees and hears in the media.

"Everyone I talk to who goes to Iraq and comes back, say they are just amazed at the difference between their impressions from what they've heard in the media and see on television, and what they actually saw first hand in Iraq," Rumsfeld said. "I suppose part of that is because the news media seem to want to carry the negative, and the news media doesn't present on television every day the large number of people who are killed in car accidents, or the large number of people who are homicide victims in the United States every day. Maybe if they did, there would be fewer car accidents and less homicides."

But, he added, "they do carry every act of violence that occurs in Iraq it seems, over and over and over."

Rumsfeld said the media don't report that Iraq's schools are open and the hospitals are functioning, "or (that) the stock market's there, or that in large chunks of the country it's relatively peaceful."


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It's Vietnam all over again.

Reporting on Viet Nam and his corruption was the fault of those "Nattering Nabobs of Negativism".

there are so many "positive sides" to war. :crazy:

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Fallujah in his Nikes, interviewing the "man in the street" in Iraq about all the great things going on there.

I'm sure the "man in the street" would have something for Rummy.

what an asshole.

(yet)

and let them broadcast LIVE 24 hours a day on CSPAN. Until then, STFU, Dick.

Bring the camera crews, and announce you're coming.

Until then, stop trying to blow sunshine up our asses by blaming the press you control. (You can howevcer blame the BLOGS which you don't control motherfucker!)

Did not hear one detail about anything positive in Iraq.

No more whining bullshit, before this the corporate media reported mainly "everything's rosy" :eyes: :eyes:

I wonder which one is the more ACCURATE portrayal, you tool?

Dear god did you ever once think that maybe the slight amounts of progress made there, don't amount to shit? Or the gross cost its been over all? Or change the fact its illegal at all? Or anything else?

Give me a break. :puke: :puke: You demonize the military by using them for your "games"/

"Fahrenheit 9/11" it was blasted by all the RW pundits and politicos as anti-American.

:shrug:

I don't get it.

Green Zone "Ain't Freedom Great?" All_American Revue.
Have a chat with someone whose visit wasn't stage-managed, you asshole!

"They never report the cars that don't blow up"

he and the rest of ShrubCo have gotten (and are still getting) up to this point, Rumsfailed can go fuck himself. If anything, the news media has been far easier on them than they deserve--it can't be just a coincidence that every time something scandalous breaks, corporate media ignore it and roll out nonstop coverage of things like the runaway bride, the shark attacks in Florida, the hundreds and hundreds of reports related to the Michael Jackson trial, etc. If the press would actually do its damned job, every one of these guys would be in prison.

And why the hell does Rummy care--didn't he want to resign, anyway? Don't let the door hit you in the ass on your way out, you fuckin' crybaby.


Edited to add: I know Bush refused his two attempted resignations (how does that work? "I quit!" "No, you don't." "Um, no, I don't."), but that's no excuse. Either he quits and gets away from those reporters and their mean ol' "negativity" (Quick! Call the waahmbulance!) or he stays and shuts the hell up about it. It's part of his job to deal with it.

If he does, he's been in a tizzie for months with everything coming out as proof that what we knew he knew we now know he knew and when he knew it!

those things just aren't the reality....

Rummy is a lying piece of shit.

Court Martial Rumsfailed's ass out of here and take his corrupt Halliburton contracts with the case file. :thumbsdown:

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and he should be tried as a war criminal

Like it or not, they do broadcast other stories, and to cover EVERY violent act in Iraq would take more than 24/7.

It's disgusting for you to compare auto accidents and homicides in the US to YOUR war! There are a lot of vehicle accidents in the US, and most are because of stupidity. There are also many needless homocides. But you are trying to compare the results of a pre=emptive war which by design has casualties...that aren't going down! to things that just happen in everyday society. Do you really think there were NO vehicle accidents in Iraq before the US invaded?

Rummy, you tap dance very well, and I'm sure George is proud of you, but the American people don't believe your cra* anymore! They don't believe George either!!!!

May 18, 2005

May 18 - Responses to a detailed survey conducted by a United Nations agency and the Iraqi government indicate that everyday conditions for Iraqis in the aftermath of the 2003 US-led invasion have deteriorated at an alarming rate...

http://www.health-now.org/site/article.php?menuId=14&articleId=446

The Iraq that America handed back to its residents Monday is worse off than before the war began last year, according to calculations in a new General Accounting Office report released Tuesday.
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/0629-10.htm

AP-COPENHAGEN, Denmark - Iraq is worse off now, after the U.S.-led invasion, than it was under Saddam Hussein, Hans Blix told a Danish newspaper Tuesday.

"What's positive is that Saddam and his bloody regime is gone, but when figuring out the score, the negatives weigh more,"
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/0406-01.htm

The $87 Billion Money Pit

The Bush administration’s favorite statistic from Iraq is the 1,595 schools it has just finished rehabilitating. This is, after all, the human face of occupation—freshly painted walls, American know-how and generosity, all wrapped up in smiling, adorable faces.

And though that number is still less than a fifth of Iraq’s 10,000 schools, it seems like amazingly fast work. The problem: many of the “rehabilitated” schools don’t look ready for the morning bell.

It’s not quite as bad as the suspiciously sandy U.S. concrete that caused schools in South Vietnam to collapse in the 1960s, generating support for the Viet Cong.

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/3339605/

"Why can't the media show us the cars that don't blow up"?

imagine what they could show if the media was truly objective and actually reporting on the wars