Fabu,
Sorry to say that my article is lenghty. This liserv does have a limitation on the amount of words for posting.
Alex
We must use time creatively, in the knowledge that time is ripe to do right.
----- Original Message -----
From: Fabu Phyllis <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Tuesday, April 8, 2003 10:32 am
Subject: Re: A Parody of the Iraqi Issue (why many missed the big picture)
> Why not post the article on the server?
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> >From: ALEX LAGIA REDD <[log in to unmask]>
> >Reply-To: "AAM (African Association of Madison)"
> ><[log in to unmask]>
> >To: [log in to unmask]
> >Subject: Re: A Parody of the Iraqi Issue (why many missed the big
> picture)>Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2003 16:35:27 -0500
> >
> >Kelechi and Dzigbodi,
> >
> >The last piece you read is just a parody of the current situation
> at hand.
> >
> >At any rate, I have been following events as they unfold in the
> news and
> >came up with an analytical piece on the American media and its
> coverage of
> >the war, which appeared in the Badger Herald newspaper at UW-
> Madison. As a
> >student in the fields of global communications and political
> science, I
> >have expressed similar distaste for the ongoing presentation of
> images and
> >media content that continue fill our television screen from Western
> >ideological orientation.
> >
> >The central theme of my latest piece focuses on U.S news media
> coverage of
> >the war in counter relations to alternative news media that exist
> in the
> >Arab world. My piece evaluates how the American media work to
> reinforce>mainstream values, beliefs and tastes of the elite
> class. The ethical
> >issues of substance, balance and fairness of news and information
> from both
> >thematic and episodic perspectives are of paramount concern to
> me. I hope
> >you'll have time to read it in the Badger Herald.
> >
> >Thanks,
> >Alex Redd
> >
> >We must use time creatively, in the knowledge that time is ripe
> to do
> >right.
> >
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: Kelechi Eke <[log in to unmask]>
> >Date: Monday, April 7, 2003 1:54 pm
> >Subject: Re: A Parody of the Iraqi Issue (why many missed the big
> picture)>
> > >
> > > Brother Alex, your observation asserts that all women are
> > > housewives and all housewives can find "hidden stuff." I hope I
> > > did not misunderstand you. What flummoxes me is the fact that
> > > each time you turn to the war news you hear about how many oil
> > > fields the U.S. troops have secured and how many airports that
> > > they have in control. There is no mention of how many Iraqi
> > > villages or people are under their control or protection, yet they
> > > are there for Operation Iraqi Freedom. It is already weeks into
> > > the battle and we can only hope that OIF doesn't turn out to be
> > > Operation Iraqi "F"uel.
> > >
> > > ALEX LAGIA REDD <[log in to unmask]> wrote:I understand the
> > > reasons why some of you are furious over the U.S. invasion on
> > > Iraq. But least to say, that most of you seem to miss the big
> > > picture. That is, the failure of the United Nations, including the
> > > U.S, Britain and other "coercion of the willing" nations that have
> > > joined forces to kick out Saddam Hussein.
> > >
> > > Men Inspectors, hired by the United Nations, have been searching
> > > for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq for 12 years without no
> > > fruitful results.
> > >
> > > One big question that keeps lingering on my mind is why the United
> > > Nations cannot fire all the men inspectors and hire WOMEN
> > > inspectors. Women are very good at finding things. Women are
> > > housewives; they know where to find hidden things. Why the U.N did
> > > not give women the chance to search Saddam Hussein's palaces? Is
> > > this an act of discrimination against women or what?
> > >
> > > I bet, if women were given a chance to search for "Saddam's hidden
> > > weapons of mass destruction", by now, we would have had another
> > > story, instead of war. That is, if Hans Blix is replaced by Ellen
> > > Johnson Sirleaf or Vera Crowell or Adelaide Fiske, then we would
> > > have discovered the truth by now.
> > >
> > > RETHINK UN, RETHINK BUSH, RETHINK BLAIR, RETHINK ANNAN! Stop the
> > > war and let's give women the chance too to find the hidden stuff
> > > in Bagdad.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Alex Redd
> > > Madison, Wisonsin
> > > We must use time creatively, in the knowledge that time is
> ripe to
> > > do right.
> > >
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: Adelaide Fiske
> > > Date: Monday, April 7, 2003 12:00 pm
> > > Subject: Re: Iraqis
> > >
> > > > Very well said and thanks. Deliverance is a colorful word,but
> > > > during the process the devil is discovered in the details.
> Let us
> > > > watch to see how the details unfold.
> > > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
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