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Old Apr 23, 2008, 11:18 am   #14 (permalink) (top)
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LOL, soldiers raping Iraqi civilians, the CIA kidnapping and torturing
American Arabs or soldiers getting redeployed well after what they
signed up for is not rocking the boat.
Now that's funny.
Well, there's a difference between slightly nudging the boat, rocking it heavily and, finally, capsizing it. It's my standard criticism of news media, too. At least in America, hardly any focus goes on Israeli occupation forces opening heavy machine gun fire on Palestinian-owned houses, or doing some such thing. Virtually all I ever hear about is suicide bombers. The same things go with US airstrikes and the true scope of their devastation. It could be argued that such stories belong in alternative media, but that serves almost to rationalize bias toward America and its allies in mainstream coverage.

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