> From: Dan Minette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > From: "Doug Pensinger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > > > Bryon Daly wrote: > > > > > > > > Yes. I believe that there are misperceptions *regarding the Iraq War > > > and surrounding events* that are propagated (or at least not debunked) > > > by the media, in the same way that Fox News is blamed for the pro-war > > > misconceptions. Or do you think that the anti-war side has a 100% > > > clear-eyed lock on all the facts, so there could be no misperceptions > > > there? From the pdf, apparently that's what the sruveyors think: > > > They have a bar chart listing a low support percentage for the war > > > among those with "no misperceptions". Really, none at all? The > > > implication being, of course, that very few people who have their > > > facts straight supported the war, and those that did support it are > > > hapless dupes, misled by the White House and the evilly complicit Fox > > > News. > > > > > > What anti war misconceptions are we talking about? I'm sure that there > > must be some, but I can't say that I've heard of any in the news or > > otherwise. > > 1) There war would result in an increase in the misery in Iraq. I've seen > on anti-war.com quotes of >100,000 casualties. I've seen arguments from > many anti-war folks that the battle for Baghdad must, of necessity, either > be bloody street fighting with massive civilian casualties or a long siege > that would result in horrendous numbers of death from disease.
The people who thought that this would happen were proven wrong. But that misses the point entirely, which is: do the people who thought this would be the results still believe that these results are true after they have been proven false? The answer is they don't, which is in stark contrast to the propaganda which shrubCo has put out that has also been proven false, and yet the majority of the people believe. > 2) The US would take the wealth of Iraq, the war was for oil. Its clear > that the war itself was relatively cheap; but that the work of nation > building is going to cost the US hundreds of billions. And billion dollar no-bid contracts for oil companies that the vice president is still receiving money from. _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
