"The way the Israelis have handled this problem in the West Bank and Gaza is to simply attempt to prevent the video from getting out, and they have been largely successful. Television depends on dramatic video. The Israeli invasion of Gaza refugee camps that left 7 dead a couple of days ago went unreported on Western television, largely because of the lack of good video. (The idiot suicide bombers would be a thousand times better off just smuggling a lot of small video cameras into Gaza and the West Bank and pulling a Rodney King on the Israelis instead of making everyone hate them by committing atrocities themselves). See http:// www.palestinemonitor.org/.
The US, because of its lack of real control of Iraq and its stated goals of bringing democracy and openness, probably does not have the same option, of just kicking the press out and confiscating the videotape. In the absence of such a move, I think it is entirely possible that Iraq will sink the Bush administration."
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