Joel
On Sun, Jul 17, 2011 at 5:19 PM, Dennis Redmond <metalslorg at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 16, 2011 at 7:36 PM, <123hop at comcast.net> wrote:
>
>> http://www.counterpunch.org/cockburn07152011.html
>
> What has Cockburn been smoking? Some of the biggest howlers: Tripoli's
> population is not 4 million, only 2 million live in the entire Tripoli
> region, and that includes regional centers like Zawiya.
> Demographically speaking, the majority of Libyans now live in regions
> outside Qaddafi's control. The scale of the bombing has been tiny, and
> limited to military targets, because it's a UN peacekeeping operation
> designed to minimize the loss of Libyan life. That's been the right
> decision -- the revolutionaries are slowly and patiently freeing their
> country.
>
> Shamefully, Cockburn does not cite one actual Libyan citizen or
> independent media source -- the liberated city of Benghazi alone has
> something like 100 newspapers now, and media cites and sources are
> plentiful on the web.
>
> -- DRR
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