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Originally posted by MarillionFan View PostYou 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.
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Originally posted by Sysman View PostWhat isn't really appreciated by us Brits is that in WWII the German forces conscripted eligible males from the countries they had occupied.
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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Originally posted by NickFitz View PostWAtWS. 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.
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Originally posted by MarillionFan View PostDepends who you work for? Al Jazeera???
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Originally posted by TimberWolf View PostWar correspondent seems like a particularly dangerous career. Who killed the most, the allies or the people who we bombed?
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War correspondent seems like a particularly dangerous career. Who killed the most, the allies or the people who we bombed?
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Originally posted by MarillionFan View PostI agree 100% and that was also my thought. Hence I started to think about a trip to Iran.
I once visited refuge camps along the Burmese border taking up school supplies. Probably a stupid thing to do as I was on my own and had to hire locals to take me a couple of days up river. But was received well, visited the schools, met the teachers/children, the head of the village. Had a tour, was shown the bullet holes, shown how they lived, where they hid if they were attacked.
It's a small inconsequential thing, but if gives both sides. You expect journalists to give both sides of a story(that is their job), you cannot always just pop over for a couple of days.
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Originally posted by SupremeSpod View PostI haven't seen the program concerned but I'm assuming that it was meant to provoke a reaction.
However I would council you with the following "Unless you see it for yourself it's the truth as someone else sees it."
I once visited refuge camps along the Burmese border taking up school supplies. Probably a stupid thing to do as I was on my own and had to hire locals to take me a couple of days up river. But was received well, visited the schools, met the teachers/children, the head of the village. Had a tour, was shown the bullet holes, shown how they lived, where they hid if they were attacked.
It's a small inconsequential thing, but if gives both sides. You expect journalists to give both sides of a story(that is their job), you cannot always just pop over for a couple of days.
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Originally posted by MarillionFan View PostIf the move is made to attack Iran at some point in the future, then I'll be on the streets.
out of sight eh ?
when the yanks dropped that nuke on Hiroshima, they wern't targetting the barracks on water-lily road you know
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Originally posted by MarillionFan View PostMore thought provoking than anything. I hadn't believed the sugar sweet pap the news turned out for the war, but the documentary went into the truth behind the propaganda.
It's main crux was how journalism didn't live up to it's part and was complicit in the propaganda.
If the move is made to attack Iran at some point in the future, then I'll be on the streets.
However I would council you with the following "Unless you see it for yourself it's the truth as someone else sees it."
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Originally posted by SupremeSpod View PostYou've watched a documentary that's upset you. Understandable.
Tomorrow is another day.
It's main crux was how journalism didn't live up to it's part and was complicit in the propaganda.
If the move is made to attack Iran at some point in the future, then I'll be on the streets.
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Originally posted by MarillionFan View PostIt's murder.
Have some perspective.
******* warmonger.
Tomorrow is another day.
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