[Peace-discuss] Five years of occupation

[Morton K. Brussel]

The coverage from France was as smelly as that of the NYT, at least  
for the "leftist" Le Monde. There was little mention of anti-war  
protests and none of the Winter Soldier witnesses. --mkb

On Mar 20, 2008, at 8:17 AM, Robert Naiman wrote:

> FAIR did an action alert on the NYT, calling on folks to contact the
> Times to complain, with the contact info for doing so:
>
> No Antiwar Voices in NYT 'Debate'
> Look back at Iraq features nine hawkish 'experts'
> http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=3317
>
>
> On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 3:43 AM, C. G. Estabrook  
> <galliher at uiuc.edu> wrote:
>> [I'm astonished (yeah, you'd think I'd learn) at the right-wing  
>> tone of the
>> coverage of the beginning of the sixth year of the US attack on  
>> Iraq.  The NYT,
>> e.g., assembles a group of experts to assess the matter, with no  
>> anti-war voice
>> at all; almost worse was the wretched PBS evening news tonight,  
>> which devoted a
>> long time to a focus group of shockingly uninformed "ordinary  
>> citizens" who
>> produced ever more specious arguments for continuing the war.   
>> Here, to cleanse
>> this offal from the mental palate, is an accurate comment -- not,  
>> naturally,
>> from the US media but from UK Channel 4. --CGE]
>>
>>
>> "I would like to remind myself and others in the United States and  
>> Britain that
>> aggressors have no rights, they have only responsibilities.
>>
>> "The first responsibility is to pay massive reparations for the  
>> crimes they have
>> carried out. That extends in the case of Iraq to include support  
>> for Saddam
>> through his worst atrocities after the war with Iran.
>>
>> "After the savage first Gulf War when George Bush authorised the  
>> crushing of the
>> rebellions that might have overthrown him, the murderous sanctions  
>> and of course
>> the war and its aftermath.
>>
>> "And their second responsibility is to hold the perpetrators  
>> accountable.
>>
>> "And finally, and crucially, to attend to the voices of the  
>> victims, which are
>> not a secret. The Pentagon has just released its latest study of  
>> opinions in
>> Iraq. It was optimistic, it said. Iraqis have shared beliefs, so  
>> there's hope
>> for reconciliation.
>>
>> "The shared beliefs turn out to be that the United States and  
>> Britain are
>> responsible for the sectarian warfare and all of its horrors and  
>> they should
>> leave Iraq to Iraqis."
>>
>> "And we should finally resolve to ensure that we are never again  
>> responsible for
>> such terrible crimes."
>>
>> --Noam Chomsky
>>
>>
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