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[judih]

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//http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/042705A.shtml

Quoting a segment:

Hostile Information
    By William Rivers Pitt
    t r u t h o u t | Perspective

    Wednesday 27 April 2005

    In this mean and meager time of pre-packaged, pre-processed, corporate-controlled infotainment that passes itself off as 'news, it is a rare and refreshing experience to see and hear a true journalist reporting the facts. I was privileged on Monday night to share a stage in Boston with Dahr Jamail, the intrepid reporter who could not stomach the biased non-news coming out of Iraq after the invasion, and went over there to see and report on what was happening himself.

    Jamail, an unassuming spectacled man in his mid-30s, spoke in a calm and precise manner on what he had seen while in Iraq. His words carried the weight of witness, but more devastating than what he said was what he showed the crowd. For an hour, Jamail flashed photograph after photograph from Iraq on a large screen. It is one thing to hear the truth. It is another again to see it, in slide after slide, through the eyes of a man who was there and returned to tell the tale.

    Jamails photo essay described the current situation in the starkest of terms. Buildings that had been bombed out during the invasion remain today blasted and unusable piles of rubble. One photo showed a blown-out supermarket with a collapsed roof. He took the picture in 2003, but showed it on Monday night because it looks the same today as it did when the bomb first fell. There are many times many such damaged buildings. The ones that remain standing are often pockmarked from machine gun fire.

    In a nation with the second largest proven stores of petroleum on earth, there are today gas lines that make the American gas-line experience of the 1970s seem a picnic by comparison. Iraqis must spend two days in their cars, sleeping in them overnight, to get a rationed 7.5 liters of gasoline, provided the station does not run out before they get to the pump. Jamail interviewed a high-ranking member of the Petroleum Ministry, who reported that the oil infrastructure is stable enough to provide gas to the country. That gas is not being provided, said the Minister, because the Americans are not pumping it, but sitting on it.

    Hospitals in Iraq are in utterly deplorable condition, with few specialists to treat common illnesses and the wounds inflicted on civilians by the bomb and the bullet, and almost no medicine. Almost all the best-trained and highest-ranking medical professionals have fled the country because they are targeted by criminal gangs seeking to extort money from them, leaving undertrained Residents to handle the load. A Health Minister interviewed by Jamail said Coalition officials had promised $1 billion in medical aid. To date, almost none of that has been provided.

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judih

[senorsalvia]

Hostile Information (otherwise known as unassailable fact)----  That pretty well sums it up for me....  The corporate dogs that pass off what is euphemistically called news should be ashamed....  Great article Judih------- senorsal

[judih]

glad you checked it out, senor.

there'll be things to check out daily for a long time to come

[Stonehenge]

The major media in this country which was in the past pathetic at best has now become a total sellout. They report what they are told to report by Bush and company. Anyone who makes decisions based on what they see on tv or print media without checking it online is a fool. It's all propaganda.

[dendro]

I've enjoyed Truthout for a long time, great site.

[byrooon]

I am not surprised. Iraq is as I thought... No doctors... lots of wounded...bombed out buildings... don't know much about the gas supply, or what the gas supply was under Saddam...


I don't know... I guess I just expect a invaded, war-torn country to be like Iraq is today...

Are there Americans who think the Iraqi's are dancing in the street, showering our soldiers with flowers, tosting them with wine?

That's what Bush and Cheney would like people to believe...

They should show the actual tragedy of war: the innocent wounded, maim and mutilated, the dead soldiers, the corruption on all the TV stations... But the guv have severely restricted the media from showing anything nasty....

George Orwell... meet Bush and Cheney....