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Originally posted by home_sweet_dome+Aug 19 2004, 10:31 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (home_sweet_dome @ Aug 19 2004, 10:31 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> <!--QuoteBegin-Cowperson@Aug 19 2004, 03:15 PM
So you use a mainstream media source to tell us it isn't in the mainstream media?# 
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I said it wasn't on the tube, specifically major US news networks. Never said anything about print, there is a difference.
And if that whole article is out to lunch cuz it ain't from a "neutral guy", then how do you explain the Bremer orders and the ongoing "rebuilding" (read: money grabbing, with little to no regard for Iraqis) of Iraq by American companies? Or is this all just a figment of my Leftist imagination? [/b][/quote]
One could easily argue that a massive influx of foreign investment is necessary to jump start the Iraqi economy so yes, it is a figment of the imagination of the left, in fact a contemptible, self-serving argument on the part of the left really.
Of course, the left is arguing the opposite.
It simply lies with the economic argument you wish to believe in. Most likely the middle ground will be the result, an Iraqi solution as the government sees fit.
A democratically elected Iraqi government - or even the one appointed - CAN change any of those provisions left by Bremer as it wishes according to the mainstream media, something your Daily Leftist author forgot to include in his missive. Pay attention: the link below is what a real news story looks like instead of the crap you were trying to peddle earlier:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/artic...-2004Jun26.html
From the story:
An annex to the country's interim constitution requires the approval of a majority of Allawi's ministers, as well as the interim president and two vice presidents, to overturn any of Bremer's edicts. A senior U.S. official in Iraq noted recently that it would "not be easy to reverse" the orders.
It appears unlikely that all of the orders will be followed. Many of them reflect an idealistic but perhaps futile attempt to impose Western legal, economic and social concepts on a tradition-bound nation that is reveling in anything-goes freedom after 35 years of dictatorial rule.
Secondly, the economic impact of the final orders of Paul Bremer, the administrative framework he left behind for the Iraqi's to assume, was discussed at some length on both CNN and MSNBC as far as I can remember. Certainly, those orders were no secret.
And why would you think there would be a difference between mainstream print media and mainstream television media in this regard.?
Usually the radical left and radical right lumps them together and accuses them of favouring the other side. You've got a novel new approach that I haven't seen before by separating them.
By the way, you have at least two right wing people in this thread - not myself - who believe the mainstream media are "liberal" while at least two - including yourself - who believe the mainstream media is an organ of the Bush administration.
Cowperson