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Thank you for participating in the Dialogue on Foreign Policy. The interactive web site is now closed. The Minister's report will appear on this web site once it is released.

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The Propaganda machines / La propagande...

Contributor: codc01

Date: 2003-04-11 04:32:10


This article is interesting (Taken from the Independent , which is anti-war):

http://argument.independent.co.uk/regular_columnists/adrian_hamilton/story.jsp?story=396017

The paragraph which is interesting is this one:

"One day the press devotes whole pages to the discovery of hundreds of bodies in an Iraqi barracks, allegedly the victims of Saddam's secret police. The next day the story disappears when the bodies are found to be soldiers from the Iran-Iraq war,..."

Does someone have an article in a news outlet which cotradicts this fact? If, so can you please give it to me... Otherwise, I'll have to say this is the truth, and news outlets are jumping to conclusions too rapidly.

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The Propaganda machines / La propagande...

Contributor: fatmomma

Date: 2003-04-11 22:15:48


Well the bodies were 15 years old or so;So yes the Iraq explaination must have been correct. The Vancouver Province published this story after this was revealed to be old prisoner repatriated bodies. You never see the correction admitting that Iraq was telling the truth. I did write a letter to the editor but no response.
When they don't print a retraction they are leaving a false impression. The story of it being a torture chamber and these people executed by Saddam was questionable from day one. The reports claimed the rooms were lined with plastic so the evidence could be quickly removed; then they leave bodies lying around as evidence for 15 years.
Even from the start they said the bodies appear to be dead for around 15 years.

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