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Old 04-23-2003, 02:59 AM   #18 (permalink)
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You *assume* that the public would have reacted differently. You also *assume* that a lot of people cheered.
nope, from what I heard the reaction was quite mixed.
But I assume that you can manipulate the public with editing the reaction of the crowd:

-if all people would have booed, people, who watch it in TV would think "moore is obviously an idiot"
-if all people would have cheered, people would think "maybe he has a point"

thats how the public works, and thats how CNN tries to manipulate.

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Yeah, and like the Arab media showed only the casualties and Iraqi propaganda to make the US look bad.
Sure

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If showing Iraqi casualties would stop the US public from supporting the war, even though that would leave Saddam in power, and lead to more casualties in the end... I don't blame the US media for not showing those casualties
Sorry, but people need to see those picture, cause next time they start calling for a war or to "kill em all" they need to know what war is about, they need to now the war is not a video game. Which all those nice pictures people tend to forget that.

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Even worse, if the experience of the last gulf war can be applied here, most of those casualties were the result of *Iraqi* anti-aircraft fire... Oops. (Yes, those bullets do eventually come falling down again!)
Yes, but I also think there were couple a misguided US missiles, anti-aircraft guns don't make such a big explosion. But truth about that will never be presented, the Iraqi goverment is no more and the US Goverment has no interest in doing so.
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