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Originally Posted by GameMaster
You shouldn't let yourself get ill over the U.S. media. You just need to remember that it's a job like any other that people do to put food on their tables. Invest your time in something else like solving a math problem that hasn't been solved yet, or dedicate your mind to an area of science that needs more attention.
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I would if the media wasn't constantly shaping the opinions of the general population. The media is a very powerful tool, and should be debinked on a regular basis.
Typhoid, Saddam wasn't making a statement against traitors. I have studied this event and have seen the footage of him laughing while smoking a cigar while the names were read. Bath (sp?) Party loyalists were named as well as memebers of other parties. His statement was that he will control you and do what he wants under penalty of death.
And the comment was borderline racist because saying that arabs can't accept democracy and stop fighting one another is the same as saying all blacks like fried chicken and all italians are connected to the mob. It is a gross generalization and an ignorant one at that. Tens of thousands of arabs have left their homelands yearning to get away from the totalitarian regimes that they lived under for years and have managed to live peacefully with not only other muslim sects but Christians as well.
You have to remember that there has never been a true democracy in the Middle East... NEVER. We can't expect people to just sit up and say "Hey! That sounds great! Lets do it even though we have no idea what that is!". You have to expect a good amount of xenophobia, especially in the beginning. Change is frightening.
*realizes he went off on a tangent*
Sorry about that,