From: spike66 (spike66@attbi.com)
Date: Sun Apr 13 2003 - 11:09:03 MDT
Mike Lorrey wrote:
>>3) 'There's no way to know how many Iraqi soldiers and civilians have
>>died'. I hear this now every day on ABC news after they show their
>>chart with coalition casualties.
>
> "There is no way to know" is intended, semantically, to be equated with
> "countless", and therefore "excessive", "barbarous", and "with callous
> disrespect for humane values". That there were so few US casualties and
> so many Iraqi casualties is now going to be played by the anti-US media
> as somehow unfair, dishonorable, and downright evil.
The curious thing about the Middle Eastern mindset it that
it seems to accept barbarous and brutal. What they really
seemed to be choking on is the poor showing the Iraqi
military made. This shames them far more than their concern
over losing a few thousand lives. spike
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