more Iraq Today

[Dave Farber <dave () farber net>]

> Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2003 09:50:02 +0200
> From: Jose M Guardia <joseg () guardiasociados com>
>
>
> Dave,
>
> Just for the record, the item was merely republished by FrontPage; it 
> originally appeared on the NY Post 
> http://www.nypost.com/postopinion/opedcolumnists/774.htm. Of course, 
> whether the Post is completely independent is another matter. In any case, 
> the writer, Amir Taheri, is a pretty reputable source, as fas as I know, 
> and I'm not sure whether his views can be blanket-dismissed just because 
> of the medium publishing them rather than on its own merits.
>
> Fact is, there's more views like that. Just last Saturday, for example, 
> Alfonso Rojo, a Spanish correspondent at El Mundo, a Spanish newspaper 
> fiercely opposed to the war in Iraq, was speaking live on Spanish radio 
> from Baghdad and said that, while there's certainly trouble there, it's 
> quite far from mayhem and chaos as its generally reported. Shops are open, 
> people more or less try to go on with their lives, he even drives his own 
> car there, and this feeling of 'constant general danger to your life' 
> simple doesn't exist, he said.
>
> I also got the same news about a month ago by a Spanish friend, with no 
> official ties to the government who travelled to Iraq for private reasons, 
> accompanying an Iraqi exile, friend of his, who wanted to locate the 
> bodies of his wife and son who he suspected were buried in one of the mass 
> graves. This was some time ago and it can be alleged that things have gone 
> worse since then, but still he was amazed, he told me, by the wide 
> discrepancy in what he had seen in the media before going there and what 
> he found once he arrived.
>
> Just my two cents.
>
> Best
>
> Jose M Guardia
> Barcelona, Spain
>
> Dave Farber, gracias por tu mensaje del 22:43 20/07/2003 / Dave Farber, 
> thanks for your message on 22:43 20/07/2003:
> > I give all sides even ones I disagree with like the original message
> >
> > > Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2003 16:28:26 -0400
> > > From: Gary Wilson <gew3 () columbia edu>
> > > Subject: Re: [IP] Iraq Today
> > > To: dave () farber net
> > >
> > >
> > > Dave,
> > >
> > > The Iraq Today item should at least have included the information that 
> > > it came from David Horowitz's publication and that the publication's 
> > > sole editorial goal is to create propaganda for the Bush White House. No 
> > > wonder this report is 360 degrees opposite from what EVERYBODY else 
> > > reports. It has no credibility and shouldn't be reposted anywhere. Now 
> > > if you had something independent offering another view, that would be 
> > > interesting.
> > >
> > > Gary
> >
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