|
myOtaku.com
• Join Today!
My Pages
• Home
• Portfolio
• Guestbook
• Quiz Results
Contact Me
AIM
• Battosai06
E-mail
• Click Here
OtakuBoards
• Shinken
Vitals
Birthday
• 1988-10-21
Gender
•
Male
Location
• I just fell down a Japanese well. I have two options: Fight hordes of demons, or die in seven days. Decisions, decisions...
Member Since
• 2004-02-09
Occupation
• Anti-Error Operative
Real Name
• Josh
Personal
Achievements
• I'm still living. That's good enough for me. ^^x
Anime Fan Since
• I first saw DBZ. I've been hooked ever since.
Favorite Anime
• Rurouni Kenshin
Goals
• Move to Japan, purchase a katana/wakizashi/tanto, learn Kendo, become a manga artist for Shonen Jump. And meet Miho Yoshioka.
Hobbies
• Anime, Being a Martial Arts Fanatic, and Ogling at Miho Yoshioka ^///^
Talents
• Drawing, Knowledge, Anime Fandom, and the like. 
|
|
|
Monday, May 3, 2004
How does this make sense?
It doesn't.
Apparently, running the pictures of what American soldiers put Iraqi prisoners through is a threat to American lives.
"The end zone here is that the American media have to be very careful about what we give our enemies. Lives are at stake." What? 'Give our enemies'? Give me a break! The American people (along with everyone else in the world) has a right to know exactly what happened. Word-of-mouth simply isn't enough in a situation like this, as exaggeration (or downplaying the severity of the incident) is bound to occur. Concrete proof is needed. (Although, some people are hinting that the photographs could have been staged, are fakes, etc.) Some people also say that the photographs needed to be taken, but should have remained in government custody as classified... stuff. That's a surefire way to gain the trust of a nation.
And then there are those who say that, since the Iraqis (under Saddam's regime) tortured people, then they deserve it, and we are justified in doing so. If you follow this line of "thought" (I use the term loosely), then tear your unused brain from your skull- your spinal cord should suffice. As Gandhi said, "An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind."
Oh, and where does Bill come up with this being a threat to American lives? I mean, yes, some terrorists could be angered because of the photos, but it would be just one more excuse. Hell, I'm sure there's at least one terrorist who joined up because he got a bad cup of mojo in a Starbuck's! O'Reilly seems to be grabbing at nothing here. That, and subtly pimping himself.
"I would run the story but not the pictures. I'd describe them using vivid words. But I could not put my fellow countrymen, I should say, in even more danger than they are now by running the photographs."
Come on, Bill. Get off your soapbox, open it, and put a bar in your mouth. And another random orifice.
Comments
(1)
« Home |
|
