09-16-2004, 08:24 PM
Wha?,Sep 15 2004, 10:58 PM Wrote:If everybody takes what their governments say at face value, stuff like 2+2=5 starts happening. Their job is not to tell you the truth, and the people who have that job would rather stay close with the big sponsors, who are close with the politicians. So, for your sake, find a media outlet that doesn't have a dependancy on sponsors from your country (or a country which has such dependancy). The only way the emperor found out he didn't actually have new clothes were the words of one who wasn't afraid to be honest.Wha is right. The for-profit media can tell you whatever they want. Just don't buy their BS. They try to sell this war as freedom. I stay away from the CNN's and the NPR's. Non-profit places like www.pacifica.org and www.democracynow.org are much better sources of media IMO.
Trigun:
Do you think America always has to be at war? Just to "prove" to other countries that we aren't sissies? So you're saying we should go to war for fun and profit, whenever we get bored.
Recently, the number of US deaths climbed to 1,000.
The number of Iraqi civilian deaths is anywhere from 12,721 to 14,751. (http://www.iraqbodycount.net/)
Just not worth it.