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Originally posted by johnny:
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Originally posted by The Hierophant:
No matter how much you don't like someone, it pays not to celebrate their death. Celebrate the freedom their death brings, sure, but showing joy human death itself betrays a certain... ugliness of character so to speak. Sets a bad precedent, that sort of thing... Food for thought.
And I've said it once (or twice, or thrice) and I'll keep on saying it, no one is fighting YOU! People are fighting soldiers funded by YOUR taxes, but they are not fighting YOU. YOU have nothing to do with what goes on in Iraq, despite how free and democratic you think you are. So head on back to your job and get the idea that YOU matter in the greater scheme of things out of your head.
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You're talking about two monsters here, who were probably even worse than their father. I would celebrate as well if i were an Iraqi. Hell, i'd throw a party and invite the whole of Baghdad. [/QUOTE]Actually, I agree with The Hierophant here.
And I'm not sure what people have seen on TV concerning reactions of the Iraqi people to these two deaths, but I didn't see that much cheering at all. In fact, in this topic people seem a lot happier than the Iraqi people drawn in front of the camera ever were (on Dutch TV, anyways) - they're skeptical about the US-soldiers' capabilities of keeping things under control and are itching to take care of their own country now; or at least that's the impression
I got. One Iraqi in front of the camera even went as far as referring to the ones attacking US-vehicles as "heroes".
Compared to what Timber mentioned above about their reactions, it seems rather easy to manipulate the news in a way to fit the respective agendas of the broadcast stations and "force" a general response on the Western viewers as they probably wish to see it. I suppose the truth is somewhere in the middle, though. That the Iraqi people are still divided on this is definitely no secret.
[ 07-23-2003, 04:55 AM: Message edited by: Grojlach ]