Why not post the article on the server?
>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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