Control Room
I just watched a very interesting DVD called "Control Room" about the beginning of the Iraq war from the viewpoint of Al Jazeera, Arab media.
It was worth watching, if only to get the viewpoint of the Arabs, rather than the continual biased Western viewpoint. Rather than be subjective and, as some Americans claim, full of lies, Al Jazeera was objective, trying to understand the true reasons for the invasion (they could see through the lies, they understand that the words 'peace' and 'USA' never come together). The American soldiers spouted the bullshit they'd been fed - that it was all about freeing the Iraqi people, using 'precision' bombs. Never mind the thousands of innocent civilians injured and killed, portrayed on TV by Al Jazeera (who, of course 'pretended' that there were casualties). This was a war, what did they expect? Americans wanted, of course, scenes of celebration from Iraqi people, but the scene in the square in Baghdad - the 'liberation' of the people, was rigged. A handful of men waving cloths. An Iraqi said 'they were not Iraqis... I am Iraqi, I grew up here, I recognise an Iraqi accent'. The US could have got any Arab-looking person (probably Saudi Arabians) to pose as Iraqis for the photo shoot - the propaganda. Of course they wouldn't admit it's propaganda. Only the 'enemy' uses propaganda and lies.
I urge you to watch this movie with an objective mind, without any preconceived ideas.
I loved the ditty sung by one of the reporters. It said it all:
Yankee Doodle went to town
riding in on Sunday
saw some people living there
and killed them all by Monday
How right he is. The Americans have always shot first and asked questions later, if they bothered at all. Americans caring? Bullshit.
