Re: They dared ask [was: Re: Forced to fight]

["David Quarter" <davidquarter@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

    Juan,

   Down in Canada (I'm assuming you're in Britain)  they call it: the
War *on* Iraq. I suppose it's to imply that this is merely the
continuation of the so-called 'War on Terrorism'.

David


>
> Last night I was watching the BBC coverage (i.e. Friday morning, about
> 8:30, London time) of the war.  I noticed, although it's been staring me
> in the face for days, that the BBC refers to the conflict as the "War in
> Iraq" and has not taken up the tag-line of "Operation Iraqui Freedom" as
> so many of the US news agencies have.  Secondly, they had some "expert
> on Saddam Hussein" on and like everyone else they were talking about the
> unexpected level of resistance to the invasion.
>
> And the it happened.  Finally, anchors for a major western news
> organization asked "how many of them are heavily armed --or lightly
> armed, for that matter-- people who don't particularly love Saddam
> Hussein but are people who are fighting simply because they don't like
> their country being invaded by a foreign army?"
>
> The "expert" commentator dismissed the possibility out of hand, but from
> the looks on the hosts' faces it was evident that they were not convinced.
>
> - Juan
>


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