Quote:
Originally posted by myfiles3000@12 April 2003 - 17:18
Do you think that its *possible* that people from the pentagon, state department, DoD, various armed forces, etc, were actively involved in the preparation of the event? Do you doubt that in a world of live-via-satellite and internet reporting, and where public opinion both domestically and abroad has such enormous consequences, that the occupying force wouldn't consider putting on a little show -- which just happened to be across the street from a hotel that housed hundreds of foreign journalists -- in order to lend some credibility to OEF?
I get the feeling that you perhaps haven't studied history or political science, or state use of mass media during armed conflict.
If i may, I offer the following bit of wisdom: there's a fine line between patriotic and naive.
Yes, it was SO thoughtful of Saddam to place the statue thusly. He always claimed to have great foresight.