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I heard a short clip on the radio this morning of Dan Rather asking Allawi some about if he was "a puppet of the U.S.". If anyone has a LINK to an article quoting him saying that, can you please send it to me on the thread here? Thanks.



And regarding this article, I saw FOX News this morning reporting that a Coalition (CPA) poll showed that 73% of those polled supported Allawi. They noted that the CPA has published polls regardless of whether they were favorable or not favorable to the CPA as well. Just fyi .....


1 posted on 06/29/2004 11:53:46 AM PDT by MeekOneGOP
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this article is pure chit and should be removed


2 posted on 06/29/2004 11:55:18 AM PDT by The Wizard (Democrats: enemies of America)
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To: MeekOneGOP

And the media desperately searches for a way to minimize another victory for President Bush.


3 posted on 06/29/2004 11:56:31 AM PDT by Cyclops08
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To: MeekOneGOP

AP isn't even trying to hide it anymore, are they?


6 posted on 06/29/2004 11:58:05 AM PDT by Billthedrill
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The press honeymoon is over for Allawi. LOL!!

The media won't quit until Saddam is back at the helm. Only then could they acheive their ultimate goal of mocking the US effort as truly failed.

7 posted on 06/29/2004 11:58:36 AM PDT by zarf
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Steps to writing for the AP:

1. Make a conjecture that has an anti-Bush premise;
2. Find at least 2 Iraqis who agree with that premise;
3. Quote them at length;
4. Offer no counterbalancing claims;
5. Submit article.

It's quite telling that they offer no contrary evidence. What--they couldn't find two Iraqis on the street to say something positive? If this had been an article talking about how Iraqis like Allawi, they would have felt the need to "balance" that with some negative comments.

Typical biased b.s.


8 posted on 06/29/2004 11:58:40 AM PDT by johnfrink
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Has the AP been engaged by Zarqawi to put out press releases on behalf of his Jamaat al-Tawhid wa'l-Jihad organization.


9 posted on 06/29/2004 11:59:34 AM PDT by vbmoneyspender
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is dismissed by militant Shiites and Sunnis

Oh. . . from the headline I thought the story referred to the general population.

I hope AP corrects that!

10 posted on 06/29/2004 12:00:35 PM PDT by Flyer (This dog bite me)
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"To MANY Iraqi's, the PM is seen as a puppet..."

MANY... I guess, technically, the four Iraqi's who's interviews were selected as quotable can be called "many".

So the article is accurate. Misleading in the extreme, but accurate.


11 posted on 06/29/2004 12:00:49 PM PDT by nuffsenuff
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Pure bulls--t!!


12 posted on 06/29/2004 12:01:25 PM PDT by Hans
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To: MeekOneGOP; joanie-f; snopercod; JeanS; Alamo-Girl
One of the most frustration aspects of national elections in the U.S.A., is that the authors of the above article, determine who will be President of the United States on election night.

The Associated Press has polling agents stationed across America, who are, or are associated with, the many AP correspondents.

Those people are supposed to report back to the AP, the vote count at each county seat in the U.S.A.

Yet they also report back their own, demographic polling data taken before, and during, election night, that is supposed to indicate to them, who will win, who is winning --- REGARDLESS OF THE ACTUAL VOTE COUNT.

The numbers tabulated on the TV screen and anywhere else, ARE ALL ESTIMATES.

They are not the actual vote count.

Now, some of the total for a candidate, is made up actual vote counts as reported by some county seats' board of elections, but there are still added, estimates for each candidate, so the total on the TV screen is NOT the actual total of actual county seats' reportings.

In theory, the numbers are supposed to be accurate, but in practice, not everybody out there is completely honest about the numbers they report.

In 1996, I had thought that surely the results for Bob Dole must be wrong. I called the RNC. They told me that they do not keep track of the numbers, "the AP does it."

The government does not even do it.

So, in my humble opinion, on election night, there should be no reporting at all, about the elections.

We should wait for the actual tally about a week later.

No candidate should make any speech of any kind, for a week.

Just silence.

Then, somebody may like to concede.

All the show on election night, is just that, a show.

Supposedly, since 1996, the AP has been under some pressure to do a better job of being accurate, but "that remains to be seen."

I don't trust them.

Reading the above article reminds me of how much I don't trust them.

Because when the gentleman in question, first took charge, there were glowing reports on how he was the better choice --- AP Wire stories --- instead of using the man who was more favored by the White House.

Now that, is "conflicted" with the indoctrination by the socialist journalism professors at university where the AP staff learned how to write politically-correct-nik, that is, give no quarter to the truth, rather, use the Marxist Thesarus and all its adjectives and idoms to paint the truth in to a corner that cannot be seen by the readers: Tell lies and make them "good ones" in order to gain another inch of socialist absolutism.

16 posted on 06/29/2004 12:11:51 PM PDT by First_Salute (May God save our democratic-republican government, from a government by judiciary.)
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Sow City Iowa has spoken.


18 posted on 06/29/2004 12:13:54 PM PDT by struwwelpeter
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"dismissed by militant Shiites and Sunnis"

As in the terrorists? Folks, never underestimate how truly evil the left is. They have done this many times before. They will denigrate the Iraqi government for being pro American and they will try to bring in horrible anti-American dictators who will rape and murder the people. They will then justify the murderers' anti-American actions.

19 posted on 06/29/2004 12:15:25 PM PDT by Williams
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When reminded by a reporter of the failure of the U.S. military with all its might to suppress the insurgency in more than a year of combat...

Good to see the media supports our troops. It took over a year to stop the guerilla fighting in occupied Germany after WW2. Was that a 'failure' too? The historical ignorance is staggering.

20 posted on 06/29/2004 12:16:26 PM PDT by rudypoot (Rat line = Routes that foreign fighters use to enter Iraq.)
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Sounds like they took lessons from the Washington Post:

http://www.commentarypage.com/johnson/johnson062904.php


21 posted on 06/29/2004 12:16:40 PM PDT by PogySailor (Proud member of the RAM)
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My god, the media would be kissing the hem of Uncle Joe Stalin's robes if that's what it took to get rid of President Bush. They will do their best to make Uncle Saddam into a martyr and Allawi into a stooge these next few months.

Liberals all want to be dictators anyway and admire ruthlessness if it destroys their detractors. Each one thinks he/she is the enlightened Nietzschean Superman, to whom ordinary morals do not apply.


22 posted on 06/29/2004 12:17:45 PM PDT by Puddleglum (Kerry loathes you but will tolerate your vote, peon!)
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Wow. It took the AP a whole 24 hours to start pumping out the Dick Gephardt "Miserable Failure" line of reporting.

What a bunch of traitorous, anti-American tripe eaters.

23 posted on 06/29/2004 12:18:40 PM PDT by Recovering_Democrat (I'm so glad to no longer be associated with the Party of Dependence on Government!)
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Headlines you'll never see:

"To many Americans, Michael Moore is a fat, lying slob"

"To many Americans, John Kerry is a flip-flopping, horse-faced bore"
25 posted on 06/29/2004 12:22:17 PM PDT by Steve_Seattle
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I don't know the leaning of this publication, but the headline is sure misleading when you see that the first sentence explains that it is the Islamlfascists that hold this view.


26 posted on 06/29/2004 12:23:04 PM PDT by CaptRon (Pedecaris alive or Raisuli dead)
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AP, agents of evil.


32 posted on 06/29/2004 12:33:20 PM PDT by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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Such sentiments are not uncommon in a nation where many blame the Americans...

Carefully crafted BS: "many" is far different from "most". "Many" think that Elvis is alive. "Many" think that Bill Clinton was a great president. There are altogether too "many" mentally challenged people out there.

33 posted on 06/29/2004 12:40:05 PM PDT by Nevermore
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