XPost: alt.france   
   From: j.murphy@nospamlibertysurf.fr   
      
   clifford wrote:   
   > December 27, 2004 | 12:28 p.m. ET   
   > The real news out of Iraq (Joe Scarborough)   
   >   
   >   
   > Did you know that the overwhelming number of Shiites and Kurds support   
   > America's efforts to bring Democracy to Iraq in the form of elections   
   > this month?   
      
   You have a respectable source for this claim I take it. Please supply   
   it.   
      
   > Did you know that Shiites make up 60% of Iraq?   
   >   
   > Did you know that Kurds make up 20% of Iraq?   
   >   
   > Did you know that the Sunnis, who have been dictators over Iraq, only   
   > make up 20% of the population - and many of them support the vote in   
   > January?   
   >   
   > Did you know that the overwhelming majority of Iraqis support the   
   > US-backed elections in January?   
      
   You have a respectable source for this claim I take it. Please supply   
   it.   
      
   > Did you know that the most powerful Shiite leaders in Iraq are   
   > telling their followers that participating in the American-led   
   > elections is a religious duty on par with fasting?   
      
   You have a respectable source for this claim I take it. Please supply   
   it.   
      
   > Did you know that the Kurds in the north fought alongside, and often   
   > in front of US troops?   
      
   You have a respectable source for this claim I take it. Please supply   
   it.   
      
   > Did you know that the overwhelming majority of soldiers and marines   
   > fighting in Iraq support the President's handling of the war?   
   >   
   > Did you know that the overwhelming majority of troops in Iraq believe   
   > this war is a noble cause?   
   >   
   > You don't know any of these facts if you get your information from the   
   > mainstream press. For whatever reason, these powerful media outlets   
   > spend a disproportionate amount of time reporting on the treachery of   
   > terrorists instead of the work of those building the first democratic   
   > Arab state in Middle East history.   
      
   I don't know any of these 'facts' because I don't watch Fox News. I read   
   French News, US News, British News and English language news from   
   elsewhere and yet, for some strange reason, I have never come across any   
   of these 'facts', they certainly are good at Fox to get so many scoops.   
   >   
   > Former U.S. House Speaker Sam Rayburn once said that any jackass can   
   > kick down a barn. It takes a carpenter to build one.   
      
   Does he write fortune cookie mottos as a sideline?   
      
   > Sadly, American media remains fixated on the jackass angle of this   
   > remarkably important story. It seems freedom doesn't sell newspapers.   
      
      
   Try reading some media from other countries and you will see that the   
   whole wolrd is perfectly aware of the facts, that the USA has completely   
   blown it in Iraq and is increasingly hated both there and in the world   
   at large.   
      
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