Posted on 06/07/2006 5:42:47 AM PDT by PurpleMan
Within hours of arriving here... one is confronted with an image of Iraq that is unrecognizable. It is created in several overlapping ways: through television footage showing the charred remains of vehicles used in suicide attacks, surrounded by wailing women in black and grim-looking men carrying coffins; by armchair strategists and political gurus predicting further doom or pontificating about how the war should have been fought in the first place; by authors of instant-history books making their rounds to dissect the various “fundamental mistakes” committed by the Bush administration; and by reporters, cocooned in hotels in Baghdad, explaining the “carnage” and “chaos” in the streets as signs of the country’s “impending” or “undeclared” civil war. ... —and it is no wonder the American public registers disillusion with Iraq and everyone who embroiled the U.S. in its troubles.
(Excerpt) Read more at commentarymagazine.com ...
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Wow. Just great and soooo helpful
It's one of the few truth pieces about Iraq that is out there.
Most of what you hear about Iraq from the media is fiction.
First time seeing for me
I had the opportunity to listen to Amir Taheri respond to callers the morning he was on CSPAN's Washington Journal. It was one of the most refreshing productive discourses I've heard regarding Iraq.
I tried to download this from the CSPAN Washington Journal archives without success. However, your time will be well spent if you are able to hear Amir Taheri's May 31, 2006 Washington Journal visit.
This is not true. CNN says otherwise (and they never lie).
Ping.
bttt
You said -- "It's one of the few truth pieces about Iraq that is out there."
I looked at the C-Span web site, where they had a video of the author, Amir Taheri.
Here is a quote from another Free Republic thread on this subject, which directed me over to C-Span:
He was on C-SPAN's "Washington Journal" program this morning and made mincemeat of an anti-US pro-terrorist caller who kept insisting that "the Iraqis were much better off under Saddam"
It's still on C-Span, as of today. You might take a look at it, if you haven't seen it.
Regards,
Star Traveler
C-Span's one of those things we can't get in Iraq.
I'd liked to have seen that, though. The media is lying through their teeth about what's happening here and I want to see them busted for it.
Thanks for the "heads-up." I might ask someone back home to tape it for me.
You said -- "C-Span's one of those things we can't get in Iraq."
I probably didn't make it clear, but I'm talking about their web site. I didn't see it on Cable TV, but rather, on their web site. Try that...
Regards,
Star Traveler
BTTT.
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