MSNBC - US Forces Have Taken Control & Are Broadcasting On Iraqi TV.

MSNBC | 4/10/03

[goldstategop]

Excellent news! For once Iraqis can get real news, information, and entertainment without being force fed a diet of never ending propaganda on the greatness of Saddam.

[The Raven]

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[hellinahandcart]

Hope this means the electricity is back on. Tired of hearing the whine about "they have no power and no water", as though that were a permanent punishment inflicted on Iraq by the U.S.

[goldstategop]

We'll be restoring basic services as soon as Baghdad is secured. And their lives will change immeasurably for the better. The greatest improvement already seen and felt in liberated Iraq is the lifting of the suffocating atmosphere of fear people lived under for decades.

[SaudiDuck]

Thanks for all your great posts, kattracks (a Richard Brautigan reference?). Living in the area, I scanned the various local satellite news stations. this morning. As of noon, local time (CDT+8), the Iraq TV satellite channel, which was on most of the time until the electrical outage a few days back, was only showing a test pattern.

[InABunkerUnderSF]

I hope this doesn’t mean they’re going to cancel the Baghdad Bob Show. I have Liberal friends and colleagues at work who cringe every time I start is sentence with “But Baghdad Bob says….”

[shezza]

Looks like a couple of DU-ers. Sadness and gloom ruled the day yesterday for them as they viewed the live pictures showing that Saddam was officially toppled. (Go figure...)

[TigerLikesRooster]

Re #2

They should run mug shots of big wigs in Saddam's regime with hansome reward money attached at the bottom.

There should also the notice for rewarding tips for WMD storage places and launchers. Tips for tunnel complexes under Baghdad and Tikrit should be also generously rewarded.

Call it "The Iraq's Most Wanted".

[TigerLikesRooster]

RE #8

Baghdad Bob should be on SNL taking over "Weekend Updates". Nobody can do it better.:) His future is in American not in Iraq.

[TigerLikesRooster]

RE #9

I am sure psychiatrists and drug dealers are having brisk businesses. Both folks can prescribe depression-battling medcations, one legal and the other illegal.:)

[WL-law]

You mean Iraqis can no longer watch these long-running Baghdad favorites:

1. Replace the Nation
2. Who Wants to Bury a Billionaire?
3. Meet the Oppressed
4. Hairy King Live
5. My Two Son-of-a-Bitches
6. My Mother the Car Bomb

and the latest Hit --- "Fear Factor"..

[Samurai_Jack]

Does this mean that FOX News will be opening an arabic affiliate? Paging Murdock!

[Radix]

How about these favorites.

Kuwait is enough

Name that Dune

[visagoth]

Putting on my armchair general hat.... One of the things I thought the US should have done from the outset of this war in Iraq would have been to buy a transponder spot on Telstar 5 and Arabsat 2A, and provide programming thru the auspices of the VOA.

I'm sure it would have been seen by the Arab world as propaganda, but after the events of yesterday, a great many would have then seen whatever the programming was as more truthful than what they have been getting from Al Jazera and the Hamas terrorist network.

[atomic conspiracy]

I still believe that we could pull the plug on the authoritarian left by liberalizing the drug laws. Drug prohibition is the only thing resembling "oppression" that these useless moonbats ever face. I think it it obvious that this is the real source of the resentment and anger that they express through their harebrained ideology. We all sense this when we watch their brainless chanting and mob violence on the news. They love to say that it's all about oil; I say it's all about dope. Give it to them, think of it as evolution in action.

What about Europe, some might ask, where they have a lot more lefties despite lax drug laws? Europe is not the USA, Europeans practically invented mass-action authoritarianism and franchised it to the third world. It is ingrained into many of the traditional social structures. The situation there might well be much worse if they had stricter drug laws, it has been in the past.

[Smile-n-Win]

They love to say that it's all about oil; I say it's all about dope.

LOL! You're probably right.

[TigerLikesRooster]

Re #17

Using dope as a way of steering human evolution in our favor? Interesting idea.

[mylife]

I just tuned into Iraqi satellite tv....All I see is a test pattern?!