[lbo-talk] Reconstruction forges ahead!

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Fri Dec 24 09:57:20 PST 2004


John Bizwas wrote:


>Ever wonder just how many DID live in Fallujah? I believe the
>population has been seriously misstated to make it a smaller figure.
>US mainstream (right wing) media stay away from estimates that say
>Fallujah, at one time, had nearly 500,000 people. Imagine if an
>invading army forced an evacuation of Cleveland so they could
>destroy the city in order to fight 10,000 'rebels'.

Does it really matter if it's 200,000 or 500,000? The U.S. attack was barbaric in either case.

Also: mainstream is most certainly not right wing. Our "mainstream" may be pretty far right by non-U.S. standards, but our right wing is really really right wing. Conservatives here think that the NYT and CBS are communist, and I'm not exaggerating. I once talked with someone who taught at a college in Savannah, Georgia, and required that the class read the NYT every day. They complained because it was so left wing.

Doug



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