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Originally posted by charly
theking
Are you the same person who yesterday told us the US media, in the shape of Fox and CBS were to be trusted. And yet today you tell us that they are controlled. Not by elected representatives of the people but big business
So what is it? A free Press, or a controlled one? You seem to want it both ways..
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Post the quote where I said that the news media is to be trusted. I have posted multiple times that media reports are to be taken with a grain of salt...specifically initial reports. The Media has always been free enterprise and never has been controlled by elected representatives.
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Also I did not say Clinton did not send men to war, so kindly do not twist my words.
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You implied it.
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I think your media should be asking a little louder than they are then.
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FAX the media outlets and give them your opinion. The publics opinion has weight with the media because it is all about ratings and dollars.
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Yes if you hid it I would have problems finding it. But that is not what we were lead to believe was the situation. Saddam did not personally hide it; he supposedly got lackeys to do it.
So informants are coming forward in the hope of finding something and getting the reward. Unfortunately again not what Bush led the world to believe?
Bush led us to believe that he KNEW they were there. Unfortunately what is now appearing, as the real truth is he THINKS they are there.
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Iraq told us they had them in '91. When the inspectors left in '98 there was still X number of this and X number of that that had not been destroyed. 1441 demanded that Iraq prove that the remaining amount of WMD materials had in fact been destroyed. Iraq presented zero paper work they the remainder of WMD materials had been destroyed. Iraq failed to produce any physical evidence that the remainder of WMD materials had been destroyed. Iraq failed to produce any scientists or personell that would have been involved in the destruction of the remainder of WMD materials. So tell me...do you beleive that they destroyed the remainder of the WMD materials?
We not only have the right to question our own leaders motives, actions and supporters we also have the right to question Americas leaders in the same way.
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Why?
American Presidents are regarded as leaders of the "Free World" and as such the rest of the world has a vest interest in the US Presidents motive, actions and supporters.
We don?t really care or know who is the leader of Portugal; a lot of us are doubtful of where the capital is. Bush however is a very different situation.
He tried to enlist the rest of the world to follow him into this war, without questioning him. When most said no, he went ahead and did it anyway. This gives us non-US citizens the right to question him.
With so much of the worlds economy inter related we also have the right to question him. The illegal rise and fall of companies like Enron and the President overseeing of the US economy also gives us the right to question him. How many non US pensioners were hurt by the fall of the stock market?
Questioning your leaders is healthy.
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See post above.