How America is fighting Iraq war on two fronts

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AT A time when Donald Rumsfeld admits that Iraq is no safer now than it was at the end of the war, American opinion polls show that Americans think the Iraq war is turning into another Vietnam and that troops should come home, it's fascinating to examine how the American administration has tried to keep secret what has been happening in Iraq.

A British writer Naomi Klein wrote late last year: "In Iraq, US forces and their Iraqi surrogates are no longer bothering to conceal attacks on civilian targets and are openly eliminating anyone; doctors, clerics, journalists who dares to count the bodies."

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She says that the first American attack on Fallujah last year caused uprisings across Iraq because of reports that the Americans had killed hundreds of civilians. This information was gathered from three main sources; Fallujah General Hospital, Arab TV journalists and clerics. The American forces withdrew from Fallujah and Donald Rumsfeld accused the Arab TV networks of vicious, inaccurate and inexcusable reporting. The Defence Department said Fallujah General Hospital was a centre of anti-American propaganda.

When in November last year US troops once again laid siege to Fallujah, according to Naomi Klein, they included a new tactic: "eliminating doctors, journalists and clerics who had drawn public attention to the civilian casualties the first time around. According to The New York Times the Fallujah General Hospital was selected as an early target. It was placed under American military control to prevent its staff reporting on civilian dead and wounded.


Khaleej Times

[Demeter]

1. Should Read: America Losing Iraq War on Two Fronts

Sheesh!

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2. I have one beef.

Naomi Klein
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
Naomi Klein

Naomi Klein (born 1970) is a Canadian journalist, author and activist. She was born into a political family in Montreal, Quebec, and now lives in Toronto with her husband Avi Lewis.

Her grandfather was fired for labor organizing at Disney. Her doctor father, Michael, was a Vietnam War resistor who fled to Canada and became a member of Physicians for Social Responsibility. Her film-maker mother, Bonnie, won fame with her ground-breaking anti-pornography film, Not a Love Story. Her brother Seth is director of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives. Naomi Klein's writing career started early, contributing to The Varsity, one of the University of Toronto's student newspapers. She credits her wake-up call to feminism as the 1989 massacre of female engineering students by Marc Lepine.

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3. I don't understand..

..is it your position that being born into a leftist political family and showing leftist tendencies precludes one from reporting? Would the inverse be true?

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4. At least wherever we fight next, we will know they aren't going to

greet us with flowers and sweets. Recruiting will be harder.

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5. Well,

what's posted:

"A British writer Naomi Klein"

I responded:

"Naomi Klein (born 1970) is a Canadian journalist, author and activist."

No more than that. Even though she shares a last name with King Ralph of Alberta.

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6. I did not write that. nt

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8. Sorry, my mistake.

[teach1st]

7. OK, now I get it... N/T