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Old 07-05-2004, 10:54 PM   #19 (permalink)
Mark Hickey
 
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Re: I was misled

Tom Sherman <tsherman@qconline.com> wrote:

>Mark Hickey wrote:
>
>> ...
>> Yes, stay away from any truly objective reporting. It will force you
>> to actually think about the entire complex situation. Do you really
>> think the terrorists in Iraq (the ones killing many Iraqis, bombing
>> the oil pipeline and doing their best to prevent a new Iraqi
>> government from forming) are "freedom fighters"?...

>
>Mr. Hickey's statement presents bias as fact, when he refers to the
>foreign occupation resistance as terrorists.


Since when do "foreign occupation resistance" target and kill their
own civilians? Women and children from their own country?

>Were not those opposing the Vichy and Quisling regimes "freedom
>fighters"? How is opposing a puppet government set up by the conquering
>nation anti-freedom?


They don't want freedom - that is obvious. They're terrified of
freedom in fact - with it goes their power.

Car bombs in crowded streets are not the tools of "freedom fighters".

Mark Hickey
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