> This war has been compared to WWII regarding Pearl Harbor and 9/11,
> but I think a much more accurate view would be to compare Fallujah
> with the Nazi Blietzkriegs of Paris or London.

Actually, Guernica.

On Thu, 18 Nov 2004 18:11, Jim wrote:
>  I'm not going to argue that at all. Those pictures show the reality
> vs the rhetoric, and the absolute distortion of that reality being
> presented to us through Pentagon controlled media.
>  Is it any wonder Al-jazeera was officially banned from reporting in Iraq?
> We are committing every war crime and act of genocide we have used as
> an excuse for military action in my lifetime, save 'turning back the
> red tide' which is loominig to re-invent itself.
>
> This war has been compared to WWII regarding Pearl Harbor and 9/11,
> but I think a much more accurate view would be to compare Fallujah
> with the Nazi Blietzkriegs of Paris or London.
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> --- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Rowland Scherman
>
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On11/18/04 6:03 AM, Garth Cartledge wrote:
> >
> >  The underlying difference between Iraq and Vietnam is that there is
> > no  Soviet-backed "North Vietnam"
> >
> > Garth:
> > Let's not quibble about inconsequentials, okay?
> >
> > There was no reason (as it turned out) to go to Viet Nam and do
>
> exactly what
>
> > the French army did.  Similiarly there is no reason to be flattening
>
> Iraq in
>
> > order to save it from Saddam (already captured), WMD (non existent),
>
> torture
>
> > of its citizens (what are WE doing?), or free elections...ha!
> >
> > You know the answer to that.  Why not just send them our Diebold voting
> > machines?
> >
> > I was responding to the pictures.  They weren't very good (as
> > photojournalism goes); but they did show the US' ham-fisted response
>
> to an
>
> > ugly, avoidable catastrophe.
> >
> > Rowland
> >
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