the flip side of the Saddam story?

For the record, he was captured by members of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK), not by US forces.

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I'm here to report that this is another version of the pulling down of Saddam's statue -- a publicity stunt, helpful (albeit temporarily) to politicians in Britain and the US. Desperate for higher percentages at home, Tony Blair already confirmed the reports of Saddam's capture nearly an hour before the CPA held their press conference doing so.

But, again, word on the street is quite different from the story being told by CNN, ABC, NBC, CBS, and even the BBC.

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I see the mainstream media in the US, and the BBC, painting this picture of throngs of jubilant crowds swarming the streets of Baghdad in celebration of Saddam's capture. Where are these hoards? Can somebody show me? I've driven all over Baghdad in the last couple of daysÖand the only throngs of roaring Iraqis I have seen have been those firing weapons in the air, along with a parading suicide bomber or two thrown in the mix, chanting over and over: "In our soul, in our blood, we will sacrifice for you, Saddam!"

http://electroniciraq.net/news/1254.shtml

The US coverage of the war in Iraq has been horribly skewed from the beginning, we can't assume that they'd clean up now.

Has anyone else seen stories like this? Any links?

For the record, I'm as glad as anyone that Saddam has been captured, but we need to take every news story with a grain of salt. Just because the story is telling us what we want to hear, doesn't mean we should allow our media to lie to us. I'm a bit of a news junkie and I always try to read article form all sides.

I'm currently putting on my bullet-proof vest for posting in GD right now. I'm just sharing this link, sorry if it is a dupe.

no doubt the opposite is also true. I hardly think there was room for any in between. People of Iraq either loved him or hated him, depending greatly on their association with the government. The biggest mistake the coalition of willing made, other than starting this egregious affair to begin with, was to fire all government employees. It proves their ineptitude to me. It would be similar to the new president in 05 firing all of our military, government employees and police officers because technically they worked under the previous fearless leader*. The people who once had a job and some pride find themselves on the outside in a desperate situation.

Very good post, there are 2 sides and I believe you are right letting the iraqi military go home was a huge mistake that cost alot of American lives I'm sure.

hook, line, and sinker. When our troops continued to die after the mission was "accomplished," it was because Saddam was orchestrating attacks against them. When our troops continue to get killed now, it will be because the Syrians and/or Iranians are sending in Al Qaeda operatives. So it goes.

If it comes from the W* Admin it is an entire crock of shit

US soldiers are handing out book bags for Iraqi children. The problem is they have an American flag on them. Must colonialism be so blatant?

On the flip side, the children are tearing off the flags, and oftentimes either an Iraqi flag is being sown in its place, or a picture of Saddam Hussein.