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>>As to the CIA advising the country, be more specific and provide proof.

So you are saying the CIA was never in Angola advising the rebels?

Look up Robert Hultslander, who served as CIA...

>>Iraq signed an agreement that he would follow certain protocol to end the war. When he failed to live up to his end of the bargain he in effect re-started the war.


On this topic could you post...

So muct to comment on, try to keep it short.

Lets start with SAMSAM's post. And the 'facts' he uses. Please post a link to the data you used as I find it totally incorrect.

>>Iraq Yearly...

FYB.

You ask for a link where the US has stolen oil. By this you demand a very narrow semantically definition of theft. What exactly do you mean by 'stolen the oil'?

Taken it without paying a...

>>Name one single war where the US has conquered and taken the oil.

Looked at the covert actions in Nigeria, Angloa, DRC? Not invasions but covert operations.


Why is it that the art...

>>but who authorized Saddam to personally overthrow the Iraqi government and become a tyrant?

Actually he was elected because he organised the return of Iraqs' oil to the Iraqi people in the '70s....

My point was on HOW the event was reported. How the media accepts the official line without question. I understand the difficult situation the troops are in and was not criticising their actions.
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No but they do make mistakes and then the 'official' line covers it up.

Take the bombing of the TV station Al Jazera in Afghanistan and in Iraq.
Why was a purely civilian instalation bombed in...

I wonder what this world would be like if arms sales were illegal and free trade actually existed. If the companies and countries that sold WMD were responsible for the use they were put too.

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I read your artical from the NSA web site. Not exactly an impartial site, being run by the US military (.navy.mil/).

"The comments that follow are not intended to address the POW issue directly,...

>>so they are justified for being a part of an oppressive regime because it paid well

We are talking about the difference between you starving and your family to death or not.

Not being able...

>>theyre suspected terrorists, im a law abiding american citizen

Most of the guys in Camp X_Ray are Taliban fighters. Not terrorists, Afghani pesants who joined the military (as it provided the...

>>are the detainees at x-ray even POW's?

If not what are they?

Most were captured in a war area (if not on a battlefield)
If they are not POW's then they must be criminals.
Except then they...

novacain>> That is, they are called 'ILLEGAL COMBATANTS' by the US so you don't have to give them the rights due POW's under the Geneva convention.<<

no-one>>thats the general idea.<<

Actually...

>>ILLEGAL COMBATANTS

A military term like 'collateral damage' (== civillian casualty).

That is, they are called 'ILLEGAL COMBATANTS' by the US so you don't have to give them the rights due...

This debate about propaganda is mute.

The Iraq TV station has now been bombed so no more Iraqi footage will be forthcomming for a while.

Anyone notice we are not being given Coalition casualty...

>>have u been met with bullets or flowers? why did u shoot at the iraqi civilians?

This was not asked on the footage I saw.

The POW's were asked where they were from and one was asked why he...

>>Btw.: Is it true that in American TV no pictures of the coalition prisoners or casualties are shown ?

It was reported in Australia that the Army asked the media not to show the images.

But...