Mallon's Media Watch

John responds today to an inquiry:

.... Much of what bothers me is the tendency I see to make the United States the very last to be given the benefit of the doubt....

The US gets the bad rap while:

• We and the Brits are bringing food and water to the people in southern Iraq

• Critics attack the US because the Iraqi citizens have not greeted allies as liberating heroes when the truth is that para-military thugs are threatening to kill Iraqi families at gunpoint if the men don't fight the Allies

• The same thugs put on US uniforms and gun down peasants who come to greet them or soldiers who try to surrender to them—in violation of the Geneva Convention

• British POWs are summarily executed, and parade other POWs before TV cameras in violation of the Geneva Convention

• The same thugs place women and children in front of them while they shoot at US forces in violation of the Geneva Convention

• The US gets wrongly blamed for killing civilians while bending over backward to avoid civilian casualties, even to their own endangerment

• Critics say there are no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq while the very scud missiles Iraq is firing at Kuwait are the missiles they said they didn't have. Reports say that Marine intel saw Iraqi troops in chemical suits unloading 55 gallon drums.

• Any Iraqi connection to Al Queda is denied, while intelligence reports that plans to attack US interests in two countries by Iraqis working with Al Queda were recently foiled.

• The war is called illegal when it could well be considered a resumption of 1991 war to enforce the surrender terms Saddam flagrantly (illegally) violated.

• Critics say "the inspections were working" while the UN failed in their enforcement of their own resolutions and while the US was stalled by the shilly-shallying Saddam had time to prepare for war.

• Can anyone doubt that if Saddam had nukes and the means to deliver them, which he could get, say, from North Korea, he would not promptly plant them in New York, Washington and Tel Aviv?...

Lane Core Jr. CIW P — Sat. 03/29/03 07:46:05 PM
Categorized as War.