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Don't Mention The War
19/03/2013 11:45 pmThe silence is almost deafening. It is strange how the local media considered a certain anniversary worthy of attention only in the last week or so when back in 2011 some three months before September, there was so much talk about the Twin Towers and 9/11 in general
Back in 2002 and early 2003 there was no escape from the drama in Iraq and now you have to go pretty much sniffing the story out on the mainstream media. But there are notable exceptions (Robert Fisk is still the voice in the Wilderness that no one listens to until some twenty years later)
Having followed events in that bit of the world ever since the 1979 Valentine’s Day arrival of a certain Ayatollah, it’s been rather a roller coaster ride. But the six months or so leading up to the American invasion of Iraq in March 2003 (with the then Australian prime minister not just grovelling along but baying for blood with the worst of them) must have been the most amazing example ever of Doublethink, double standards or maybe just plain old fashioned hypocrisy
( Doubleplusungood )
Back in 2002 and early 2003 there was no escape from the drama in Iraq and now you have to go pretty much sniffing the story out on the mainstream media. But there are notable exceptions (Robert Fisk is still the voice in the Wilderness that no one listens to until some twenty years later)
Having followed events in that bit of the world ever since the 1979 Valentine’s Day arrival of a certain Ayatollah, it’s been rather a roller coaster ride. But the six months or so leading up to the American invasion of Iraq in March 2003 (with the then Australian prime minister not just grovelling along but baying for blood with the worst of them) must have been the most amazing example ever of Doublethink, double standards or maybe just plain old fashioned hypocrisy
( Doubleplusungood )
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