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To: tictoc
The left will go to the emergency rooms and to pictures of wounded children,...

Won't work either. Most of those children were shot by Saddam's own secret police and Fedayeen in order to create propaganda against America. But the parents are screaming to high heaven that it was Saddam who did it, not America. So, no profit for the Left in focusing on those injured Iraqi kids.
7 posted on 04/13/2003 10:02:14 AM PDT by George W. Bush
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To: George W. Bush
Most of those children were shot by Saddam's own secret police and Fedayeen in order to create propaganda against America. But the parents are screaming to high heaven that it was Saddam who did it, not America. So, no profit for the Left in focusing on those injured Iraqi kids.

You may be giving the American public at large too much credit. After the major military action is over and the news coming out of Iraq has become more routine America will revert to old habits.

Most Americans give the news very little attention. (That’s where the big media got the “If it bleeds it leads” philosophy.) If it doesn’t immediately grab their attention the greater public switches channels to ESPN or a Soap. Watching more than one hour of news a day (probably less) is totally out of the question.

If the major news media can get some poor little pathetic bandaged child and its mother on tape wailing, then by hook or crook blame it on the Allied military action, they will sway many against the occupation.

11 posted on 04/13/2003 10:26:49 AM PDT by Pontiac
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