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>  > Similarly, it is said that Saddam Hussein invaded Koweit only because
>  > Americans assured him that they wouldn't react.

At 6:01 AM +0800 10/12/01, LogicBaby wrote:
>This is very true, Sandi-man hussain had a green light to go and capture
>some disputed oil fields on the Kuwaiti boarders, but everyone was surprised
>that he has gone too far.

And this is the typical quality of distortion that people use to vilify the US.

Hussein asked a highly elliptical question to a low level diplomat 
who not only did not seem to understand what was being asked but in 
no way had the authority to approve of the action.  Yes she made a 
mistake in her response.  No that does not make the US responsible 
for the invasion of Kuwait.   The people who do the action are 
responsible are they not?

If you ask a traffic cop at an intersection if he minds if you go 
through the intersection and, thinking you mean after the light 
changes,  he nods his head, does that make it OK for you to 
immediately push the pedal to the floor knowing you will run over and 
kill 50 pedestrians?


>  The Gulf war was about oil companies not about
>people and its being paid for until this day "there is nothing for free",
>morals only come to work when they serve some interests... In the west there
>seems to be a democracy and its true that you can say what you like, but
>most ordinary people are just brain washed by the media and "MOST OF the"
>media is in fact tightly controlled unlike what it seems to be.

Yes we're mostly  just zombies marching in lock step to the evil beat 
of the CNN drum.

>I can say
>this from comparing events  about Palestine reported on CNN and Al-jazeera
>Arabic network, CNN always does a good job at hiding some facts and
>presenting the news out of context so you think what they want you to
>think....

Is Al-jazeera unbiased?
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