Comments on: Multiple agendas http://antonyloewenstein.com/2006/04/07/multiple-agendas/ Sun, 21 Mar 2010 10:00:30 +1100 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: orang http://antonyloewenstein.com/2006/04/07/multiple-agendas/comment-page-1/#comment-3789 orang Fri, 07 Apr 2006 06:20:10 +0000 http://antonyloewenstein.com/blog/2006/04/07/multiple-agendas/#comment-3789 "Another appalling example of the effect of an "atrocity-producing situation" was experienced last November 19th in Haditha. American troops, in retaliation against a roadside bomb attack, stormed nearby homes and shot dead 15 members of two families, including a three-year-old girl. US military response? All 15 civilians were killed by the blast of the roadside bomb." Sort of sounds familiar. “Another appalling example of the effect of an “atrocity-producing situation” was experienced last November 19th in Haditha. American troops, in retaliation against a roadside bomb attack, stormed nearby homes and shot dead 15 members of two families, including a three-year-old girl.

US military response? All 15 civilians were killed by the blast of the roadside bomb.”

Sort of sounds familiar.

]]> By: Addamo http://antonyloewenstein.com/2006/04/07/multiple-agendas/comment-page-1/#comment-3781 Addamo Fri, 07 Apr 2006 02:28:04 +0000 http://antonyloewenstein.com/blog/2006/04/07/multiple-agendas/#comment-3781 It's mind boggling to hear the choruses of hhow th egood news is not gettign out when you read accounts like this from Dahr Jamail: http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/040406Z.shtml <blockquote> US soldiers killing innocent civilians in Iraq is not news. Just as it was not news that US soldiers slaughtered countless innocent civilians in Vietnam. However, when some rare reportage of this non news from Iraq does seep through the cracks of the corporate media, albeit briefly, the American public seems shocked. Private and public statements of denial and dismissal immediately start to fill the air. We hear, "American soldiers would never do such a thing," or "Who would make such a ridiculous claim?</blockquote> Clearly, the news not getting out is that which is too difficult to stomach. It’s mind boggling to hear the choruses of hhow th egood news is not gettign out when you read accounts like this from Dahr Jamail:

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/040406Z.shtml

US soldiers killing innocent civilians in Iraq is not news. Just as it was not news that US soldiers slaughtered countless innocent civilians in Vietnam. However, when some rare reportage of this non news from Iraq does seep through the cracks of the corporate media, albeit briefly, the American public seems shocked. Private and public statements of denial and dismissal immediately start to fill the air. We hear, “American soldiers would never do such a thing,” or “Who would make such a ridiculous claim?

Clearly, the news not getting out is that which is too difficult to stomach.

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