<strong>Written By:</strong> oost_oneiric
<strong>Date:</strong> 2004-09-23 09:16:00
<a href="/article/21624895-truth-from-these-podia">Article Link</a>

http://www.usnews.com/usnews/politics/w ... ruth_1.pdf

http://www.usnews.com/usnews/politics/w ... ruth_2.pdf

http://www.usnews.com/usnews/politics/w ... ruth_3.pdf

http://www.usnews.com/usnews/politics/w ... ruth_4.pdf

http://www.usnews.com/usnews/politics/w ... ruth_5.pdf

http://www.usnews.com/usnews/politics/w ... ruth_6.pdf

http://www.usnews.com/usnews/politics/w ... ruth_7.pdf

   

So what is the point? Everything that needs to be communicated is "marketed". Marketing is a form of communication. Impersonal communication to the many. If the premise of the article is that the war needed to be marketed...of course it did. Every war is marketed...why do you think all that old film footage exists. Surely some guy hoping over a trench is not news!?
Anyhow, some people thought toppling Saddam a wise thing to do(like myself), others did not. The sad thing about this article is it seems to point out only those efforts at marketing and some items chosen are questionable. But let's give it to the writer. What is really sad is the fact that it mentions nothing of the enormous good being done over there. Seems the article is doing some marketing of it's own.

   

Please fill me in on what the "enormous good" is? Seriously.

   

Do the pockets of enormous good outnumber the pockets of enormous violence and death ?

It can take weeks to build a school or police station, and seconds to reduce it to a pile of rubble.

The US "coalition" does not have control over the country, they are leaving huge areas under religious control, and I'm not sure that's a good thing.


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"One crisis at a time is life's motto" - Carl Sagan
Jim Callaghan
Minden, Ontario
705-286-1860
www.misterc.ca

   

The pockets of good probably do outweigh the pockets of death, or at least there are more pockets of good now then there used to be. Saddam would feed live prisoners into the wood chipper feet first among other gross atrocities, but we never heard them scream because for some strange reason there weren't media all over the story or Iraqi websites reporting all that.

   

http://www.commondreams.org/views04/0924-13.htm <p><i>But as I got closer I noticed that the crane was not actually rebuilding anything—not one of the bombed-out government buildings that still lay in rubble all over the city, nor one of the many power lines that remained in twisted heaps even as the heat of summer was starting to bear down. No, the crane was hoisting a giant billboard to the top of a three-story building. SUNBULAH: HONEY 100% NATURAL, made in Saudi Arabia. </i></p> How about this "enormous good"?<p>---<br>RickW

   

You're right, I guess that is an enormous good too. Saddam was starving his people and now they can buy better food so life must be improving for them.