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Offline NUKE

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« on: April 20, 2003, 12:23:24 AM »
Viewing a BBC broadcast from Iraq while out of town, it struck me how biased these people are. They seemed to be reporting only the negative stories they could find, like the Baghdad zoo or the looted museum.

It reminded me of a BBC report from Jenin about an Israeli "massacre" in Jenin.

I looked up the report. Here is a professor on sight in Jenin stateing that, although no bodies have been found, there is growing evidense of a massacre. Here are his quotes:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/1937048.stm

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"I must say that the evidence before us at the moment doesn't lead us to believe that the allegations are anything other than truthful and that therefore there are large numbers of civilian dead underneath these bulldozed and bombed ruins that we see."


Evidence? No evidence other than that the allegations are true. What fine reporting.

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Derrick Pounder: Evidence of a massacre
 
He said: "The truth will come out, as it has come out in Bosnia and Kosovo, as it has in other places where we've had these kinds of allegations."


Yeah, the truth came out alright, but not the truth this guy wanted.
 
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He said post mortems on two bodies had "given cause for suspicion" and there was "extensive damage" to Jenin.


well there you have it, BBC at it's best. Post motemem on 2 bodies is positive proof of a massacre and "extensive damage to Jenin" ....that's a given.

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« Reply #1 on: April 20, 2003, 12:25:57 AM »
The only things that are biased are the vacume tubes you war-mongers live in.
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« Reply #2 on: April 20, 2003, 12:35:31 AM »
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The only things that are biased are the vacume tubes you war-mongers live in.


I view trerrorists and states that support them as war mongers living in a vacume, not us.

I believe that natioins, extremists groups and terrorists that chant and wish "death to America" are the war mongers living in a vacume.

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« Reply #3 on: April 20, 2003, 12:38:12 AM »
You used "I" twice in two sentences.."I" rest my voltage meter.
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« Reply #4 on: April 20, 2003, 12:42:55 AM »
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You used "I" twice in two sentences.."I" rest my voltage meter.


Good come back considering your limited (compressed) options.

Maybe what you meant to say was that "I" was used to begin two consecutive sentences. I am sorry but

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« Reply #5 on: April 20, 2003, 01:45:55 AM »
You are rediculous Nukem.

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« Reply #6 on: April 20, 2003, 01:57:16 AM »
Wars have been based on less and your point?

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« Reply #7 on: April 20, 2003, 04:04:58 AM »
better the BBC than Foxnews

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« Reply #8 on: April 20, 2003, 09:31:44 AM »
and least theyve gotten over the americans take bagdahd...people happy thing your news storys keep on droning about...if you ask me all the news services paying to close attention to the war are ridiculous (HOW COME I CAN SPELL THAT AND YOU CANT???) or biased or both

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« Reply #9 on: April 20, 2003, 10:25:05 AM »
Now.. if you could only spell baghdad....

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« Reply #10 on: April 20, 2003, 10:43:22 AM »
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and least theyve gotten over the americans take bagdahd...people happy thing your news storys keep on droning about...if you ask me all the news services paying to close attention to the war are ridiculous (HOW COME I CAN SPELL THAT AND YOU CANT???) or biased or both


What do you mean by "your news" ? Do you have access to some secret news service that no one esle has? I love it when people say Americans receive only limited news services and then imply that they get the "real" news.

Americans citizens have access to more news sources than most countries citizens have

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« Reply #11 on: April 20, 2003, 12:37:56 PM »
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and least theyve gotten over the americans take bagdahd...people happy thing your news storys keep on droning about...


Gotta love it. Cruise into town with M-1's, point the main guns at the crowd and say (think Jack Nicholson voice) "Ain't ya glad ta see us? Smile for the cameras!!"

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« Reply #12 on: April 20, 2003, 02:25:34 PM »
by your i mean you americans news...and yes you do have access to more news sources than us...including the national enquirer and cnn

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« Reply #13 on: April 20, 2003, 03:25:45 PM »
Not to wade in on one side or another here.....

I had heard an American broadcaster state that some news clips aired in Europe were subtitled with coments allegedly different from what the person on the tape actually said. The ones in the story were video of troops (American) in action or guarding a position. The subtitles in the home language of the audience indicated the soldiers were saying things such as they liked shooting iraqi's or were hoping they could shoot some more. Have any of our foriegn postes here seen anything like that?? It would mean you'd have to understand the sound track and English but that shouldn't be any problem for those on this bbs.

I am not being sarcastic here, I'd just like confirmation one way or the other and it would go a ways in explaining the differing view points of soem of the European country's if they were in fact getting slanted news like this. Just curious as I don't have access to foriegn new sources or fluency in another language. I guess I'd have to trust your honesty in any replies. :eek:  ;)
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« Reply #14 on: April 20, 2003, 03:42:21 PM »
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