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>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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