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good points....but
Art Martin — (archived)

Mark, I so agree that there is probably some staging going on by the Iraqi insurgents after a strike but what you're seeing is not what the Arabs are seeing. I was shocked when I viewed that Arab telecast the other day. What they're being fed is diametrically opposed to what comes out in our news. The viewers there will not take a critical look and wonder why the civilians being pulled out aren't bloodied.

Along with those news bits on Arab TV, they also have blips of our President with his sound bites linking Saddam and terrorism or insisting that the WMD's were there all along. It seems to me that Bush ought to be making weekly addresses to the people of Iraq and the Mideast, directly talking to them about the successes and failures and admitting with some humility the difficulty of the tasks.

And why can't we have infrared videos of the comings and goings to a potential target from hidden ground observers prior to a strike to discredit their claims of weddings and civilian gatherings? Who in the hell is in charge of our propaganda team there? In my eyes they are doing a miserable job. Simply having some general get up and answer questions at a news conference after a disputed strike with assurances that their intel was correct is easily countered in the Arab and world media.

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