SoldiersMum wrote:The Democrats in Congress passed the Defense Policy Bill last week. Attached to the bill was an amendment by Representative Paul Hodes, D-NH. The Amendment prohibits Defense Department Concerted Efforts to Propagandize the American Public Regarding the Iraq War and requires an investigation into the Government Accounting Office for its propagandizing the Iraq War.
In essense..Good News in Iraq..the Defense Department can't tell the public...duh.
Additionally, as an overreaching possibility, this Bill could prohibit any slogans or activities used by any of the Services to recruit.
..The bill passed and the Amendment passed the House and is headed for the Senate. No telling what will happen there or if passed whether Bush will sign it.
COMMUNISM !!!!!!!!!
entirely irrelevant.
hodes is placating constituents and in no way impacting what you get to hear about iraq. the press and its military sources dutifully white-wash information and cooperate with one another and have so since the civil war. they will continue to do so with or without irrelevant laws.
reminds me of the first time i returned from overseas. i was standing in the streets of manila when marco's was overturned. watched it go down first hand. days following all this i landed in san francisco and began to follow local news. at first i thought i must have been in the wrong phillipines. what our journalists were reported was what sounded like a bloody, violent overthrow that left untold civilians dead or wounded. what i saw was lazy, lumbering crowds following various speakers around with an occasional breakout fight between police and college students, something you might see quite often on the streets of chicago or berkeley.
in this country we do not get news, journalism, or any assemblage of truth. not sure we ever have but lately it seems like increasingly extreme sides of colorful stories designed to pit us against one another. we're not that far apart folks, and we have less than zero to fight about. most of the noise comes from small, disenfranchised sociopaths with money and time on their hands -- generally people we ignored in high school.
i do not know anyone that sees a news paper as anything more than floor protection, packaging, comic strips, real estate, weekend and television guides, and classifieds. and we have to watch six different news channels and spend countless hours on the web to form our own versions of the truth, which is kind of scary if you think about it. but whatever the press or the military is saying about that war, the only givens are its not even close to the truth and that's a good thing.