I am not going to post link in Japanese, French, German or other languages for most of the people on this forum wouldn't understand what's said. The tone is generally neutral or clearly against war. In the US, war propaganda is raging. I've had a quick look around. I've concentrated on the big names like CNN and MSNBC.
CNN announces the "good news" in the headlines that oil fields have been captured :
U.S. official: Troops seize key oil fields
ABC :
France Said to Be Working on Saddam Exile Deal
=> Plain, stupid anti-French propaganda
I even found this title on MSNBC "Chirac rejects new U.N. resolution", but the link showed another article about Putin (??).
Then there is the "paranoiac news" on MSNBC :
Suspect linked to "dirty bomb" plot?
or more propaganda showing the usual arrogance and over-confidence :
Rumsfeld: Saddam "losing control"
After that, they carry on with selfishly exaggerating news of "casualties". Of course not a word about the hundreds of civilian Iraqi, just "4 Marines" who knew what they were up for :
Casualties's kin get dreaded news
Still on MSNBC, the article on demonstrations around the US concludes with :
Newsweek seems proud of US technology and hopes for few (US) casualities :
Q&A: Smarter Weapons, Shorter War?
Yes ! They continue :
Good, good... But who cares about the receiving end of this nice technology ?
CNN announces the "good news" in the headlines that oil fields have been captured :
U.S. official: Troops seize key oil fields
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- U.S. and British troops have seized, in lightning raids, two strategically important airfields in western Iraq and strategic oil fields in southern Iraq, according to a senior U.S. military official.
ABC :
France Said to Be Working on Saddam Exile Deal
=> Plain, stupid anti-French propaganda
I even found this title on MSNBC "Chirac rejects new U.N. resolution", but the link showed another article about Putin (??).
Then there is the "paranoiac news" on MSNBC :
Suspect linked to "dirty bomb" plot?
or more propaganda showing the usual arrogance and over-confidence :
Rumsfeld: Saddam "losing control"
After that, they carry on with selfishly exaggerating news of "casualties". Of course not a word about the hundreds of civilian Iraqi, just "4 Marines" who knew what they were up for :
Casualties's kin get dreaded news
Still on MSNBC, the article on demonstrations around the US concludes with :
The antiwar street protests contrasted with the support for the military campaign indicated in public opinion polls. In a CNN-USA Today-Gallup poll, 70 percent of the respondents said they agreed the United States had acted at the right time to topple Saddam's regime.
The CNN-USA Today-Gallup poll of 602 adults has an error margin of plus or minus 4 percentage points. The poll was conducted Thursday
Newsweek seems proud of US technology and hopes for few (US) casualities :
Q&A: Smarter Weapons, Shorter War?
So, is that something to be proud of ?I'm not sure people realize the size of the hammer we are lowering on Iraq.
Yes ! They continue :
March 19 ? When America last went to war with Iraq a dozen years ago, U.S. forces achieved victory in six weeks and lost fewer than 300 soldiers (nearly half of them to non-battle-related deaths).
U.S. OFFICIALS HOPE those figures will be even lower during this conflict and Gen. Richard B. Myers, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, calls the current Iraqi war plan (much, much, much different) from that used in Desert Storm. Technological advances are a big part of the reason why. Missiles are now guided by lasers and satellites, new tanks come equipped with computerized mapping systems and cruise missiles can be redirected midflight. High-power microwave bombs are able to knock out entire power grids with a massive energy surge.
Good, good... But who cares about the receiving end of this nice technology ?
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