At 02:10 PM 04/17/2001 -0700, Eric Cordian wrote:
Jon Beets writes:
Hmmm lets see, if I remember right that actually was not an air raid shelter it was a military hold which the people of the community were told was "safe" to hide in... Or am I just to believe that is our own government propaganda?
Yes, it was our own government propaganda, just like the "baby milk" factory being a top secret biological weapons manufacturing facility, and numerous other such examples from the war.
Ramsey Clark, former US Attorney General and well-known leftie, did a movie about the Yankee-Iraqi war. He drove about 1000 miles in a week during the heavy bombing period - a lot of driving around at night with no headlights (so the Yankees don't bomb him, but at major risk of driving into craters in the road) and interviewing people who'd been affected. Some of the notable interviews were a neighborhood in Bagdhad that had half a dozen buildings bombed by US attempts to take out a bridge - the locals were starting to think about blowing it up themselves in self-defense when the US finally succeeded. Clark did a segment at the notorious "baby milk factory", and while it probably was legitimate, his film *really* looked like somebody trying to make a propaganda coverup pretending that this <pick your favorite bad activity> factory was a <perfectly innocent media-squishy liberal-guilt-tripping> baby milk factory. There was a pallet of bags of white powder with a sign in English saying "Baby Milk" on it, etc. Not one of the high points of an otherwise excellent movie. Of course, leave aside issues like the appropriateness or safety of baby formulas as a substitute for breast-feeding - many of the same liberals who watched the film have been boycotting Nestle' for years (and watching the Nestle' borg buy up the industry) because of their dishonest promotion of these products in the third world where average people don't have safe water supplies and can't afford the product, and would be much better off spending the money improving the nutrition of the babies' mothers...