[Peace-discuss] The media, in the UK, but also here.

[Morton K. Brussel]

This is an excerpt from Media Lens [http://www.medialens.org/alerts/ 
index.php ] castigating the UK media and in particular the liberal  
Guardian Weekly (to which I admit to subscribing) for its handling of  
news from Iraq. It of course also applies to the U.S. "liberal" media  
such as the NYT or the WP. In this piece, Medialens denounces the dry  
unemotional  way in which  the Guardian treats the suffering of the  
Iraq war/occupation. The following quotes an Iraqi, Riverbend,  a  
witness (now in refuge in Syria) to the suffering.  --mkb

…“As the situation continues to deteriorate both for Iraqis inside  
and outside of Iraq, and for Americans inside Iraq, Americans in  
America are still debating on the state of the war and occupation -  
are they winning or losing? Is it better or worse.

“Let me clear it up for any moron with lingering doubts: It’s worse.  
It’s over. You lost. You lost the day your tanks rolled into Baghdad  
to the cheers of your imported, American-trained monkeys. You lost  
every single family whose home your soldiers violated. You lost every  
sane, red-blooded Iraqi when the Abu Ghraib pictures came out and  
verified your atrocities behind prison walls as well as the ones we  
see in our streets. You lost when you brought murderers, looters,  
gangsters and militia heads to power and hailed them as Iraq’s first  
democratic government. You lost when a gruesome execution was dubbed  
your biggest accomplishment. You lost the respect and reputation you  
once had. You lost more than 3000 troops. That is what you lost  
America. I hope the oil, at least, made it worthwhile.”

This honesty shamed just about every last journalist writing in the  
UK media. Riverbend now writes, far less often, as a refugee in Syria. …
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