Joanna
Jon Johanning wrote:
> Been noticing a curious thing in discussions about Iraq lately.
>
> When anyone -- both in the mainstream media and on the left -- talks
> about "violence in Iraq," they are never referring to what the U.S.,
> British, and other (are the Poles still there?) militaries do; it's
> always the resistance that commits violence. (And they aren't
> "resistance," they're "insurgents," whatever that means).
>
> Apparently the U.S. military and its allies are a bunch of pacifist
> flower-power hippies. Who knew?
>
>
> Jon Johanning // jjohanning at igc.org
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