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Re: Independent Journalist Dahr Jamail Visits UCSC

"the Americans desecrated Islam and its holy text, the Koran and Americans aren't governed by a dictator."

Oh yeah, he didn't desecrate it at all... [/sarcasm] anywho...

"see how many of the anchors have n AmeriKKKan Flag lapel pin on."

You mean the mainstream media that reported on the incidents at Abu Ghraib, the marine shooting the dying soldiers, the op-ed pieces about how the war is hopeless?

Everything is biased, but this fellow speaking reports for BBC as the article states, and BBC is a state owned media agency, owned by a state that has soldiers in Iraq! So hell, the invalidity of your own statement is revealed in the main post of this statement!

"That's why we have the Department of DEFENSE, not the Department of OFFENSE."

not quite correct. We had a Department of WAR that was changed to a Department of Defense because the last few conflicts we've engaged in have not been WARs (that would require congressional approval) but actions undertaken by the president - the name change was to make it easier for a president to utilize the military without congressional approval.

For example, Vietnam was never officially a war, but a police action - and neither Iraq nor Afghanistan are officially wars either.
 


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