US media, Gulf War propaganda

[Charleston Chew]

Run time: 07:32 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRXiFxRsKFM   Posted on YouTube: January 14, 2011 By YouTube Member: RTAmerica Views on YouTube: 815   Posted on DU: January 16, 2011 By DU Member: Charleston Chew Views on DU: 672

 
Sunday January 16th marks the 20 year anniversary of the first Gulf War, where a UN-authorized coalition force led by the US and United Kingdom fought against Iraq for the purpose of pushing Iraqi troops out of Kuwait. However nay argue the war was really an international attempt to secure access to Kuwaiti oil resource, a notion left highly undiscussed at the time of the conflict. Jeff Cohen, a media critic and journalism professor at Ithaca College said the US media did not investigate, they merely carried US government propaganda, working as an arm of the American political machine. "Most of the things that the American people believed about the war were false."

[Dokkie]

1. I am sure

nobody cares, its only brown people that are dying because of the lies by our dear leaders. The same goes for the reason why we are in Iraq and Afghanistan but as usually our "anti war" president is going to continue the war regardless of the death and destruction we bring to those countries. Just looking at yesterdays news were an Iraqi soldier shot and killed 2 of his US trainers, it is evident that they do not want us there, so I say

END THE WARS NOW

No stupid time tables or replacing combat troops for trainers, just pack up and leave. We should all be ashamed of ourselves for letting this carry on as long as it has.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x210741

[lfairban]

2. Won't happen

We should be ashamed of ourselves for Vietnam too, but we haven't been.

[Charleston Chew]

3. ?

"we"