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G.I.'s Ban Baghdad Paper Accused of Lies
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Posted on 03/29/2004 6:26:04 AM PST by TheBigManSentMe

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Here is my question: The newspaper apparently was shut down because it expressed anti-american views that were detrimental to building stability in Iraq. Was it the way we should have gone about it? Just because we KNOW we are right, and they are wrong, does it give us the right to use force to silence the opposition that we KNOW is wrong? Wouldn't it be wiser to counter that newspaper with our own media that we already should have established in Iraq?

And here is the follow up question: What happens if there is a democratic election in Iraq, and they elect an extremely anti-american government. Are we going to cancel that too?

ungrateful bastards...

1 posted on 03/29/2004 6:26:05 AM PST by TheBigManSentMe
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A paper was accused of printing lies and the story appears in the NY Times?

The irony
2 posted on 03/29/2004 6:28:01 AM PST by gortklattu
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To: TheBigManSentMe
Calling for the murder of innocents in a public forum is not democracy.

Of course the NYT knows that, and has written an article for the conspirazoids that call Cpsan in the mornings.

Just more from Saddams defense team.
3 posted on 03/29/2004 6:31:21 AM PST by roses of sharon
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Gratitude is one of the most fleeting of emotions. As one reporter said last week, we have freed the Iraqis and like the French, they may never forgive us for it.

I say take out this jerkwad "cleric" and all his followers.
4 posted on 03/29/2004 6:31:58 AM PST by Blood of Tyrants (Even if the government took all your earnings, you wouldn't be, in its eyes, a slave.)
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these are the people we are trying to help ?
5 posted on 03/29/2004 6:33:19 AM PST by TheBigManSentMe
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"No, no, America!" and "Where is democracy now?" screamed protesters...

You are able to protest, right? I'd say things a better that they were 18 months ago.

Still, I question the wisdom of shutting down a popular paper.

6 posted on 03/29/2004 6:34:45 AM PST by TankerKC (Clogged Arteries and Still Smilin'!)
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I don't understand the photo. Are these people in Iraq or are they the DNC faction that's issuing orders to Kerry?
7 posted on 03/29/2004 6:34:55 AM PST by gortklattu
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the thing though, this paper was smart about it. they never called or supported any kind of violence, they just bashed americans 24/7. so how the hell do we explain to an average iraqi the reason for closing it without looking like hypocritical bastards?
8 posted on 03/29/2004 6:35:45 AM PST by TheBigManSentMe
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Welcome to Free Republic.What are your views on being in Iraq,the possibility of "perfect" in a country that will overstep the newfound freedom,print lies that we were the cause of the explosion where many people were killed and injured in order to incite animus against the soldiers.
9 posted on 03/29/2004 6:36:59 AM PST by MEG33 (John Kerry's been AWOL for two decades on issues of National Security!)
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lol, that's the picture of iraqi protesters from this morning. i am not sure if kerry is there, could be somewhere outside the frame, i don't know
10 posted on 03/29/2004 6:36:59 AM PST by TheBigManSentMe
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"Welcome to Free Republic.What are your views on being in Iraq,the possibility of "perfect" in a country that will overstep the newfound freedom,print lies that we were the cause of the explosion where many people were killed and injured in order to incite animus against the soldiers."

I don't have any answers for you, that's why I am asking questions here, lol

In general, don't our soldiers fight for the rights of people, here and abroad, to be able to express their views freely even when they are being assholes, as long as they don't actually plan or advocate any violence?
11 posted on 03/29/2004 6:41:33 AM PST by TheBigManSentMe
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I don't know that there are any functioning courts there in which to file libel suits.

What many people don't understand is that democracy, even in the republican form we have here, is includes a healthy dose of individual responsibility. That attitude does not appear prevalent in that part of the world.
12 posted on 03/29/2004 6:41:59 AM PST by Gefreiter
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"ungrateful bastards." The lament of all advocates of empire when things don't go as planned in the colonies.
13 posted on 03/29/2004 6:47:03 AM PST by Austin Willard Wright
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You ,sir, are speaking with a great deal of simplicity.I fear you need to study more of what is going on with the struggle.I know if you read here more often,especially the posts of Ragtime Cowgirl,you will be more enlightened.
14 posted on 03/29/2004 6:48:07 AM PST by MEG33 (John Kerry's been AWOL for two decades on issues of National Security!)
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Ragtime Cowgirl?
That doesn't sound right
15 posted on 03/29/2004 6:50:02 AM PST by TheBigManSentMe
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They will never understand it in that part of the world.

Violence is encoded in the Arab DNA.

After we dispatched Saddam we should of left.

This attempt to introduce a sense of Western ethics into the Arab world is akin to trying to teach monkeys how to read.

16 posted on 03/29/2004 6:50:14 AM PST by zarf (..where lieth those little things with the sort of raffia work base that has an attachment?)
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To: TheBigManSentMe
The Big Man Sent Me does?
17 posted on 03/29/2004 6:51:22 AM PST by MEG33 (John Kerry's been AWOL for two decades on issues of National Security!)
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Critizing the US occupation and even spreading lies is not prohibited. But when they openly advocated violence, the stepped over the line. However, this will only push them underground.
18 posted on 03/29/2004 6:52:10 AM PST by Blood of Tyrants (Even if the government took all your earnings, you wouldn't be, in its eyes, a slave.)
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Welcome to Free Republic. I see you signed up today.
19 posted on 03/29/2004 6:52:41 AM PST by AmishDude
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To: zarf
We could not just leave.It would have become one big terror training camp.
20 posted on 03/29/2004 6:53:34 AM PST by MEG33 (John Kerry's been AWOL for two decades on issues of National Security!)
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