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The War You Don't See

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    #31
    Originally posted by MarillionFan View Post
    Depends who you work for? Al Jazeera???
    Usual canard is that they are biased pro-islamicist whereas our media are more or less neutral. I have to say that it doesn't seem to me to be so.
    Job motivation: how the powerful steal from the stupid.

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      #32
      Originally posted by NickFitz View Post
      WAtWS. The vast majority of casualties in each of those wars were civilians. Conscripting civilians, calling them soldiers, and putting them in the front line isn't very different to shifting the front line to where they live and killing them there. It also saves the cost of issuing uniforms. No wonder politicians like it.
      What isn't really appreciated by us Brits is that in WWII the German forces conscripted eligible males from the countries they had occupied.
      Behold the warranty -- the bold print giveth and the fine print taketh away.

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        #33
        Originally posted by Sysman View Post
        What isn't really appreciated by us Brits is that in WWII the German forces conscripted eligible males from the countries they had occupied.
        It is appreciated by some

        On DDay, half the enemy we faced were called Ost battalions, conscripted from Poles, Slavs, Russians but mostly Ukranians.
        They fought very poorly. If my dad had been a better shot we might have been able to see AtW being retrospectively un-conceived



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          #34
          Originally posted by MarillionFan View Post
          You expect journalists to give both sides of a story (that is their job)


          Nice one!

          Oh, that is so funny.

          You almost make it sound like you mean it, too.
          My all-time favourite Dilbert cartoon, this is: BTW, a Dumpster is a brand of skip, I think.

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            #35
            YouTube - Anonymous Strikes Back for WikiLeaks! (Operation Payback)
            What happens in General, stays in General.
            You know what they say about assumptions!

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