Annie
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http://www.courier-journal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050508/OPINION04/505080346/1054/OPINION
I'm too tired, but this deserves it!
I'm too tired, but this deserves it!
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This statement screams for authentication.I could go into a long litany of the ways in which the American military has treated journalists in Iraq. Recent actions indicate that the U.S. military will detain and/or kill any journalist who happens to be caught covering the Iraqi side of the militant resistance, (emphasis added) and indeed a number of journalists have been killed by U.S. troops while working in Iraq. This behavior at the moment seems to be limited to journalists who also happen to be Arabs, or Arab-looking, but that is only a tangential story to what I'm telling you about here.
This is flangrantly absurd. The US is not writing the Iraqi constitution, they are writing it themselves. They are also in the process of forming their own sovereign government, in a process supporeted by at least the 2/3 of the population which voted in the elections. The British never extended any such freedoms to the Colonies.Recall Patrick Henry's famous speech encouraging the Second Virginia Convention, gathered on March 20, 1775, to fight the British, "Give me liberty or give me death!" Why is it that we, as Americans, presume that any Iraqi would feel any differently? If the roles were reversed, do you think for a moment that our men wouldn't be stockpiling arms and attacking any foreign invader with the temerity to set foot on our soil, occupy our buildings of government and write us a new constitution?
You seemed to have caught on just fine:USViking said:What is a "fisking"?