Fred Stone <fstone69@earthling.com> wrote in alt.atheism

Elroy Willis <elroywillis@swbell.net> wrote in

Fred Stone <fstone69@earthling.com> wrote in alt.atheism

Elroy Willis <elroywillis@swbell.net> wrote in

Have you seen this?

http://www.thenewsvault.com/cgi/news.pl?t=11

"The captive Iraqi tells his family to ‘say hello to everyone’ and
his lawyer claims that the former dictator’s human rights are
being violated in jail.

Military censors have blacked out nine of the 14 lines. But in
what remains of his letter, Saddam Hussein assures his family that
my spirit and my morale, they are high, thanks to greatness of
God."

Other reports I googled up say that he's taken up gardening inside
a prison compound at the Baghdad airport, and that he has
a fondness for one particular tree that he takes care of.

What's strange to me is how little press he gets these days, given
that it was such a big deal when he was captured, and was one of
the main reasons for the war.

Since his capture can be seen as one of Bush's successes, the media
aren't about to show his picture.

Not even FOX news?

That would be too much like gloating.

Yeah, right. <cough> :)

If FOX news reporters could get inside the prison and take some
pictures, you don't think they'd do so? Really?

FOX at least covered the Iraqi vote in a balanced way, which NBC's
Meet the Press certainly did not. Meet the Press interviewed John
Kerry, of all losers, and showed old footage of car bombs instead of
anything current about Iraqi polling places.

70% plus turnout. Very little violence, even in the Sunni areas. Some
estimates of 40+% even in Fallujah.

Where did you see the above results? Which news sources?

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Elroy Willis <elroywillis@swbell.net> wrote in
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Fred Stone <fstone69@earthling.com> wrote in alt.atheism

Elroy Willis <elroywillis@swbell.net> wrote in

Have you seen this?

http://www.thenewsvault.com/cgi/news.pl?t=11

"The captive Iraqi tells his family to ‘say hello to everyone’ and

his

lawyer claims that the former dictator’s human rights are being
violated in jail.

Military censors have blacked out nine of the 14 lines. But in what
remains of his letter, Saddam Hussein assures his family that my
spirit and my morale, they are high, thanks to greatness of God."

Other reports I googled up say that he's taken up gardening inside
a prison compound at the Baghdad airport, and that he has
a fondness for one particular tree that he takes care of.

What's strange to me is how little press he gets these days, given
that it was such a big deal when he was captured, and was one of
the main reasons for the war.

Since his capture can be seen as one of Bush's successes, the media
aren't about to show his picture.

Not even FOX news?

That would be too much like gloating.

FOX at least covered the Iraqi vote in a balanced way, which NBC's
Meet the Press certainly did not. Meet the Press interviewed John
Kerry, of all losers, and showed old footage of car bombs instead of
anything current about Iraqi polling places.

70% plus turnout. Very little violence, even in the Sunni areas. Some
estimates of 40+% even in Fallujah.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article7910.htm

' The big television networks have been given a list of five polling
stations where they will be "allowed" to film. Close inspection of the
list shows that four of the five are in Shia Muslim areas - where the
polling will probably be high - and one in an upmarket Sunni area
where it will be moderate. Every working-class Sunni polling station
will be out of bounds to the press. I wonder if the television lads
will tell us that today when they show voters "flocking" to the polls.

In the Karada district, we found three truckloads of youths yesterday,
all brandishing Iraqi flags, all - like the unemployed who have been
sticking posters to Baghdad's walls - paid by the government to
"advertise" the election. And there was a cameraman from Iraqi state
television, which is controlled by Iyad Allawi's "interim" government.

The "real" story is outside Baghdad, in the tens of thousands of
square miles outside the government's control and outside the sight of
independent journalists, especially in the four Sunni Muslim provinces
which are the heart of Iraq's insurrection.'

Ho hum.