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March 23, 2003
Winning And Losing
From Fox News Watch:
- Steve Ende, from Flushing, N.Y., makes another point worth considering. Ende believes the "liberal news media" began slanting their coverage even before the fighting began. How? "By rigging the scorecard by which success will be judged," says Ende.
He then goes on to list 10 criteria he believes have been imposed on the war effort by the media. Among them are the following:
— The war must end in about a week, 10 days at the most.
— There must be minimal, if any, U.S. casualties.
— No "innocent" Iraqi citizens can be killed in the process.
— No Iraqi schools, mosques or hospitals can be damaged.
— Our troops should be welcomed by American flag-waving Iraqis.
— We must find weapons of mass destruction.
— We must kill or capture Saddam Hussein and his sons.
— There can be no oil well fires or other environmental disasters.
Of course, for Iraq to win-- or more correctly, for Saddam to win, all he has to do is hold on to power. It doesn't matter how many Iraqi citizens that might die, or how many more kurds that might be gassed, or how many more Shia's are tortured.... all Saddam needs is to continue in his Strongman role.
Nice.
So what's my definition of Victory for the United States? The death of all who would do us deadly harm.
Posted by crandal at March 23, 2003 12:46 PM