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FrankC — 4/11/2003 4:31:41 PM (archived)

My career was/is in commercial lending and I seldom saw a lender make a false move.

The certainty that lives come before the principle in question assumes that an official presence is the only way to gather news. It also begs the question, how much attrocity the media can ignore without becoming complicit?

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Media confesses it covered up Saddam's evil - phil - 4/11/2003 1:19:57 PM
- The New Republic published an article on this topic last October - Larry J - 4/11/2003 6:37:32 PM
  - and CNN lied denying the accusations - p - 4/11/2003 6:57:55 PM
    - What did they know and when did they know it? - Larry J - 4/11/2003 11:41:16 AM
- It's not just the media... - McFly - 4/11/2003 6:06:00 PM
- Good stuff here. - Tom Brosz - 4/11/2003 5:37:49 PM
- JHC! what good is access? - FrankC - 4/11/2003 1:49:40 PM
  - Seems to me... - Don - 4/11/2003 2:41:47 PM
    - good point and a further rant - p - 4/11/2003 4:50:05 PM
    - Another view - Don - 4/11/2003 2:48:24 PM
    - Sorry Don - Mark Eby - 4/11/2003 12:27:13 PM
  - And where has the information we have had about Iraq come from? - Mary Anne - 4/11/2003 2:37:52 PM
    - I have my problems with FOX - FrankC - 4/11/2003 3:31:38 PM
      - Why, Frank - what'd I do? ;-) [n/t] (n/t) - Fox - 4/11/2003 7:50:18 PM
        
        You don't call, you don't write :) (nt) (n/t) - FrankC - 4/11/2003 11:11:45 AM
      - An easy question at last! - Mary Anne - 4/11/2003 3:40:06 PM
    - But buy staying, they gave Sadam legitimacy he did not deserve. - Scott - 4/11/2003 2:52:40 PM
      - Re: By staying, they gave Saddam witnesses he didn't want but could not afford to expel - Mary Anne - 4/11/2003 3:19:46 PM
        
        Wow! - Perspective - 4/11/2003 4:02:44 PM
        
        I understand - FrankC - 4/11/2003 4:31:41 PM
        
        principles don't trump human life - Scott - 4/11/2003 4:16:30 PM
        
        That was ignorance and superstition among the uneducated classes, dear. ;) - Mary Anne - 4/11/2003 4:48:24 PM
        
        Re: ignorance and superstition - Tom Brosz - 4/11/2003 5:43:51 PM
        
        I agree. I think its a tough call. - Scott - 4/11/2003 3:39:38 PM
        
        Very Tough Call - Perspective - 4/11/2003 5:38:54 PM
        
        i don't have a good answer... - Scott - 4/11/2003 8:52:40 AM
      - No logic to that whatsoever - Don - 4/11/2003 2:57:22 PM
        
        ok then... If CNN found WMDs in Iraq... - Scott - 4/11/2003 3:04:49 PM
        
        Pardon me for horning in here and speaking of you as if you were not in the room, Don... - Mary Anne - 4/11/2003 3:32:11 PM
        
        i don't disagree...at least not entirely... - Scott - 4/11/2003 3:55:36 PM
        
        Yeah, it *does* make you wonder, doesn't it? - Mary Anne - 4/11/2003 4:11:19 PM
        
        Bookmarking that one. A lot of us should have it on a card on our monitor. - Tom Brosz - 4/11/2003 5:40:35 PM
        
        I admit it...I'm guilty as charged! N/T (n/t) - Scott - 4/11/2003 4:20:12 PM
        
        Thank you Mary Anne - Don - 4/11/2003 3:35:58 PM
        
        Cripes - Don - 4/11/2003 3:32:04 PM
  - Well now we know why the media is Bush's lap dog... - Anne Leftleaner - 4/11/2003 2:26:48 PM
- Making Something Simple Complex - Mark Eby - 4/11/2003 12:50:31 PM

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