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Old 08-24-2008, 08:44 AM  
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Originally Posted by Fletch XXX View Post
riiight, using 14 year old girls as athletes (against olympic rules), arresting reporters, detaining protesters, faked lip synched child singers, stabbing, ...

there are countless news articles quetioning why we held the Olympics there and why it was a bad decision.

http://www.kansascity.com/495/story/764015.html

David Wallechinsky, vice-president of the International Society of Olympic Historians and a frequent television commentator, said the Beijing games had not lived up to the Olympic charter, which condemns "discrimination with regard to a country or a person on grounds of race, religion, politics, gender or otherwise."

"What was the goal of bringing the games to Beijing?" Wallechinsky asked. "If they wanted to bring the games to the most populous nation in the world, they succeeded.

"If they wanted to help the Communist Party issue propaganda to its own people, they succeeded. If it was to improve human rights, they failed miserably."
Having been to China, I know how badly slanted the western media is. I would suggest you take most of the negative shit you hear in the media as bullshit ... I know for a fact a lot of it is very selective reporting. There has been a western media crusade against China for some time, and you really should take what you see on CNN and NBC with a grain of salt.
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