Posted on 05/22/2005 11:12:32 AM PDT by FreedomCalls
Edited on 05/22/2005 4:04:18 PM PDT by Lead Moderator. [history]
Newsweek's false, retracted story about American guards flushing the Koran down a toilet at Guantanamo doesn't necessarily mean the magazine's staff hates America or Bush, or wants us to lose in Iraq. To be charitable, let's just chalk that one up to sloppy journalism.
But I'm at a loss to explain this, from the February 2 issue of Newsweek's Japanese edition:
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i think im gonna call up drudge on this so he'll hopefully post it on his website.
i think im gonna call up drudge on this so he'll hopefully post it on his website.
sorry about the triple post
That rumbling sound you hear is millions of buried veterans who fought for Old Glory rolling over in their graves. Some in my family among them.
This is an unspeakable abomination, especially in time of war.
I like the idea of going after the advertisers. Let the market show its teeth and bite back.
Shameful-liberal-media-hate-America P I N G!!
Hannity and Rush need to get a copy of these covers. O'Reilly and Drudge too for that matter. That American flag in the trash cover really disgusts me and needs to be seen all over America so they can see what Newsweak is really all about. I hope their subscription numbers go right in the trash can.
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an explanation:
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Time Magazine's coverage of Newsweak's botched story
When A Story Goes Terribly Wrong
This is truly outrageous --- I wonder what they printed in their international editions about the Koran story.
What's that suppose to mean?
One word. MONEY!!!
That is a lie.
Belated thanks for the ping and e-mail on this, Race. What an outrage! >:-(
If so, it's because people stopped being like those "others."
>That is a lie.
Indeed. It is a lie. The left wants you to think they were for the elimination of the Taliban, but the same people currently protesting the Iraqi campaign were protesting the Afghan campaign from the very start as well, even as the ruins of the WTC were still smoldering. They have always been against any Bush inititive, no matter what it is. Evidence follows:
From October 18th 2001, just 37 days after the 9/11 attack:
In Berkeley, California, people were on the streets in protest, even before the military strikes began. Their demonstrations and rallies calling for a "non-military approach" to capturing terrorist Osama bin Laden was also represented in Capitol Hill.Berkeley's congresswoman, Barbara Lee, cast the only vote in the House of Representatives against giving President Bush sweeping military powers in the war against terrorism.
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Congressman James McDermott from Washington State later echoed Lee's sentiment.
"The destruction of the infrastructure did not work in Iraq a decade ago. It's deja vu. This sounds an awful lot like Iraq. Saddam Hussein is still in power," he pointed out.
"I'm not so sure that President Bush, members of his administration or the military have thought this action out completely or fully examined America's cause," said McDermott.
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Several weeks ago, thousands of protesters gathered in Washington D.C. for an antiwar protest.
"I don't think the solution to violence is more violence," 19-year-old Rachel Ettling said to The Washington Post newspaper. "It's a very patriotic thing to be an activist."
Cities like Boston and Chicago saw similar peace rallies. In New York City, more than 1,000 antiwar protesters demonstrated less than two miles from Ground Zero, the site of the former World Trade Center buildings.
Many of the activists are critical of US foreign policy. However, the antiwar protester is not the only activist on the streets these days. Lots of Americans are out supporting the president's decision to launch military strikes.
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In Berlin, Germany, several thousand students marched against war, but their numbers were much lower than what organizers had projected.
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In London, England, 3,000 people demonstrated against British military involvement in the war on terrorism. They said bin Laden should be brought to justice through international war courts.
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Around 2,000 Muslims and Christians recently marched in Sydney, Australia, to protest the war. Again, their numbers were smaller than what peace organizers had wished.
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October 28, 2001--On Saturday, people in 75 cities throughout the U.S. demanded an end to the U.S. war against Afghanistan, as the mounting civilian destruction in Afghanistan causes support for the bombing campaign to crumble. They were joined by thousands more in 40 cities in 20 other countries.
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The coalition known as International A.N.S.W.E.R. -- Act Now to Stop War and End Racism -- set that day, Oct. 27, as an international day of protest, and in New York, New Zealand, Los Angeles, Japan, Boston, England, the Philipines and more -- in a count of at least 120 anti-war events in 20 countries -- the burgeoning anti-war movement came out in force.
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Protesters in New Zealand held the U.S.-led coalition attacking Afghanistan in violation of international law in an impromptu people's court.
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In Padova on Oct. 27, 2001, some 600-700 people demonstrated against the U.S. war in Afghanistan as part of the international protests called by ANSWER
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Anti-war protests took place in a number of Australian cities last weekend reflecting concerns among wider layers of the population about the implications of the US bombardment of Afghanistan and Australian support for it. The largest protest took place in Sydney on October 13, when around 3,000 people marched from the Town Hall through the centre of the city to Martin Place, where speakers addressed the crowd.
Young people carried placards denouncing the bombing of the Afghani people as answering terrorism with more terrorism.
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In one of the biggest peace demonstrations in Germany, more than thirty thousands of people took part in the peace rally in Berlin on Saturday calling for an end to the military strikes against Afghanistan.
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The anti-war demonstration that took place in London on October 13 [2001] was significant for its size and mood. There were about 50,000 on the demo, which was bigger than expected.
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It is being described as the biggest peace action Italy has witnessed in the last few decades. An estimated 200,000 people staged a peace walk from the cities of Perugia to Assisi expressing their opposition to the US war on Afghanistan. This was a continuation of the Italian Left tradition of peace movement during the cold war period.
God Bless America.
Thank you. I still fondly remember Gordon Sinclair's commentary in 1973. (Listen to the audio here.)
"LET'S BE PERSONAL"
Broadcast June 5, 1973
CFRB, Toronto, Ontario
Topic: "The Americans"The United States dollar took another pounding on German, French and British exchanges this morning, hitting the lowest point ever known in West Germany. It has declined there by 41% since 1971 and this Canadian thinks it is time to speak up for the Americans as the most generous and possibly the least-appreciated people in all the world.
As long as sixty years ago, when I first started to read newspapers, I read of floods on the Yellow River and the Yangtse. Well, Who rushed in with men and money to help? The Americans did, that's who.
They have helped control floods on the Nile, the Amazon, the Ganges and the Niger. Today, the rich bottom land of the Mississippi is under water and no foreign land has sent a dollar to help. Germany, Japan and, to a lesser extent, Britain and Italy, were lifted out of the debris of war by the Americans who poured in billions of dollars and forgave other billions in debts. None of those countries is today paying even the interest on its remaining debts to the United States.
When the franc was in danger of collapsing in 1956, it was the Americans who propped it up and their reward was to be insulted and swindled on the streets of Paris. And I was there. I saw that.
When distant cities are hit by earthquakes, it is the United States that hurries into help... Managua Nicaragua is one of the most recent examples. So far this spring, 59 American communities have been flattened by tornadoes. Nobody has helped.
The Marshall Plan... the Truman Policy... all pumped billions upon billions of dollars into discouraged countries. And now, newspapers in those countries are writing about the decadent war-mongering Americans.
I'd like to see one of those countries that is gloating over the erosion of the United States dollar build its own airplanes.
Come on... let's hear it! Does any other country in the world have a plane to equal the Boeing Jumbo Jet, the Lockheed Tristar or the Douglas 10? If so, why don't they fly them? Why do all international lines except Russia fly American planes? Why does no other land on earth even consider putting a man or a woman on the moon?
You talk about Japanese technocracy and you get radios. You talk about German technocracy and you get automobiles. You talk about American technocracy and you find men on the moon, not once, but several times ... and safely home again. You talk about scandals and the Americans put theirs right in the store window for everybody to look at. Even the draft dodgers are not pursued and hounded. They are right here on our streets in Toronto, most of them... unless they are breaking Canadian laws... are getting American dollars from Ma and Pa at home to spend here.
When the Americans get out of this bind... as they will... who could blame them if they said 'the hell with the rest of the world'. Let someone else buy the bonds, let someone else build or repair foreign dams or design foreign buildings that won't shake apart in earthquakes.
When the railways of France, Germany and India were breaking down through age, it was the Americans who rebuilt them. When the Pennsylvania Railroad and the New York Central went broke, nobody loaned them an old caboose. Both of them are still broke. I can name to you 5,000 times when the Americans raced to the help of other people in trouble.
Can you name to me even one time when someone else raced to the Americans in trouble? I don't think there was outside help even during the San Francisco earthquake.
Our neighbours have faced it alone and I am one Canadian who is damned tired of hearing them kicked around. They will come out of this thing with their flag high. And when they do, they are entitled to thumb their noses at the lands that are gloating over their present troubles.
I hope Canada is not one of these. But there are many smug, self-righteous Canadians. And finally, the American Red Cross was told at its 48th Annual meeting in New Orleans this morning that it was broke.
This year's disasters... with the year less than half-over... has taken it all and nobody... but nobody... has helped.
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