Thiago Oppermann <thiago_oppermann at bigpond.com> wrote:
> On 12/4/2003 3:21 AM, "lbo-talk-request at lbo-talk.org"
> <lbo-talk-request at lbo-talk.org> wrote:
>
> > Mosul Falls, Baghdad in Chaos
> >
> > By Khaled Yacoub Oweis
>
>
> Horrifying as all this may be, I still get no end of joy
> from hearing
> headlines such "Looting, Anarchy and Ecstasy as Tyrant
> Falls." Or the
> apology for looting from some rightwing nutters, which
> sounds, incredibly,
> like the sort of stuff we get from autonomists. I just
> saw Rumsfeld having a
> tantrum because the media was so obsessed about the
> chaos, looting and
> murders - what did they think, he seemed to suggest, this
> is LIBERATION!!!
Their reaction was quite different during the LA Riots though....I guess because those people weren't liberated? --- Sent from UnionMail Service [http://mail.union.org.za]