coughing franks
General Tommy Franks needs a bag of cough drops too. I wonder if they're
sold in Qatar.
Yeah, I'm watching far too much TV lately. But that's the danger of being
unemployed and having a TV/Tivo addiction.
I wish I had caught the full quote of the Iraqi foreign minister speaking
in Egypt yesterday. He said something about George W. Bush being a
"drunken junkie" or something along those lines. Wow, he's got W's
number...
Still, it's interesting that the Iraqi PR campaign is mostly that of
foul-mouthed words and disinformation, mostly aimed at raising support in
the Arab world for their country. I'm not saying that our government
doesn't also have a level of disinformation, but we're clearly not
leveling personal attacks on the leaders of Iraq. Though I guess the
military attacks are much more dangerous.
The embedded journalists are really bringing certain pieces of this
conflict to our homes. I'm not sure it's been a complete success. But
clearly, we have more information about the fighting than we did in 1991's
Desert Storm. Though I definitely wonder what we have not seen and how
much the unit commanders are limiting the embedded journalists from
reporting.
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