Just to respond to your exact words, doctors do it all the time. Breaking something to fix it is the basis of a LOT of repairs. But that's not the point here. I doubt that the invasion of Iraq targeted civilians or civilian resources. The goal was not to break it so we could fix it. The goal may be argued about quite a bit, but no one says we did it for the express reason of fixing it. But that's just dickering over language.
As for the media, the hostility is ALL their fault. I see time and again where they misrepresent events, forge events and just plain out lie to peoples faces. They report using the language of their choice rather than the language of truth. "activists" is a really nice way of saying terrorists, isn't it? On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 8:49 PM, Todd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Some would argue that breaking something so you can fix it and then being > proud of that isn't really progress. ;) > > And, wow, you are a bit hostile towards the media in general. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Michael Dinowitz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "CF-Community" <[email protected]> > Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2008 8:39 PM > Subject: Re: obama and iraq > > > > Ah, the standard response. We're at fault so we should ignore anything > > that > > has improved there since we went in. Electricity on? It was our fault it > > was > > off so why bother reporting it. Water? Same deal. Anything good that can > > be > > reported from Iraq can be ignored because it can be stacked against "but > > its > > our fault it was broken". > > And in this way we allow the media more and more control over what we > see > > as > > true. It's not truth, it's their opinion. It's their idea of what we > > SHOULD > > think is true, not what actually is. Rather than just believing what the > > media says, why not look at what the 'opposition' says. What is the > > government saying? The army? The Iraqi bloggers? The media is the last > > place > > I go for news now-a-days. If I want a reporters opinion I'll get it > after > > someone's beaten it out of him. Only way to get truth over opinion when > it > > comes to those %$%^$%&^. > > > > > > Report the bad because we're responsible for it but don't report the > good > > because we're responsible for it being bad in the first place. > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;160198600;22374440;w Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:255135 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
