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Date Posted: 07:24:14 03/31/03 Mon
Author: ZEKE
Author Host/IP: 65.161.199.82
Subject: Some questions about (this) war (and comments)

1. Should anyone be upset or surprised w/Peter Arnett's being on the Iraqi public relations team? We have known his reporting is about (1) Glorification of himself; and (2) helping the Arab cause. I see nothing new with his recent Quisling routine. NBC should not have fired him.

2. As far as his comments about Baghdad be "disciplined." That is not surprising given Baghdad is cut off from the masses of the Iraqi people. Internal passports are required to come and go into that city. Furthermore, within Iraq you can exoect the security apparatus to most deeply imbedded. And finally, Baghdad is populated by the ruling elite. of course they are disciplined - they know this is the gunfight at the OK corral - and they are not getting out.

3. I think it is important that the presence of Al Queda be documented. The failure to call the conflict something more akin to what it really is - kill every motherfucker that can possibly hurt us - than Iraqi freedom has blurred the focus. Iraqi freedom should have always been tangential. Al Queda presence can rightfull get the focus back on what should be the goal of this campaign - decapitating anyone that is a threat to us.

4. I give the Arabs credit for learning from 1967. The now understand that warring together gets them their asses handed to them. Now they get to posture, huff and puff, and be outreaged at coalition behavior - all the while hoping bastards they do not really like get killed (i.e. Sadam).

5. What is the nature of these press "conferences" the Iraqi strongmen hold? Are there reporters present? If so, should it not be relatively easy to find out where the braintrust is located? Or are thyese just staged in a studio somewhere and distributed for public consumption?

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