It's possible that the guy was some sort of spy and got caught, but if he was a spy, he was pretty lousy one. Of course, the CIA has done dumber things than send a spy into an Arab country with an Israel stamp in his passport. I'm trying to think of one right now, but nothing comes to mind. And poor-quality video could explain some of the problems with dubbing and skipping.
I don't know. I'm no audio-visual expert, and I won't watch the tape. CNN can go screw itself with its own war-time propaganda. I haven't watched anything of theirs since the whole "They're so evil, they kill puppies!" crap from the Al-Quida days.
In the big picture, I have to wonder if it matters one way or the other. Maybe this is propaganda. Maybe our own CIA killed this guy; I wouldn't put it past them. The killing doesn't change the bigger picture. The US has completely botched its foreign affairs in the last four years in so many ways, it's a wonder the other countries of the world haven't nuked us off the planet. Maybe, in the long run, the planet would be better off.
Please, please, International Community, there are smart, caring people in the United States, I swear. Just yesterday, there was a guy in the pet store with a tiny kitten he'd found on a playground. He was all upset and sad because he only had dogs, and he wanted the pet store people to help him take care of it. I should have shot some video of that and put it on the internet. It would never make the evening news, of course. Things like that never do.
'Course, I still haven't seen the video (it seems to be pretty hard to come by) and even if I did I would hardly be able to judge most of those listed discrepancies.
Even if the video was faked, it wouldn't change the fact that terrorists are scary dangerous people with no compunctions about murder, many of whom indulge in vile anti-Jewish/anti-Israeli conspiracy theories and hatred that would do Goebbels proud.
Nor would it make the Abu Gharib abuse-fest okay. (I have, by the way, seen rightist assertions that those photos were faked, which seems like utter BS to me -- if there were any genuine quibbles about the photos' authenticity we would have heard about it from the White House or from U.S. intelligence.)
It would, however, make me another ten percent scareder of my government than I already am.
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Date: 2004-05-18 01:39 pm (UTC)It's possible that the guy was some sort of spy and got caught, but if he was a spy, he was pretty lousy one. Of course, the CIA has done dumber things than send a spy into an Arab country with an Israel stamp in his passport. I'm trying to think of one right now, but nothing comes to mind. And poor-quality video could explain some of the problems with dubbing and skipping.
I don't know. I'm no audio-visual expert, and I won't watch the tape. CNN can go screw itself with its own war-time propaganda. I haven't watched anything of theirs since the whole "They're so evil, they kill puppies!" crap from the Al-Quida days.
In the big picture, I have to wonder if it matters one way or the other. Maybe this is propaganda. Maybe our own CIA killed this guy; I wouldn't put it past them. The killing doesn't change the bigger picture. The US has completely botched its foreign affairs in the last four years in so many ways, it's a wonder the other countries of the world haven't nuked us off the planet. Maybe, in the long run, the planet would be better off.
Please, please, International Community, there are smart, caring people in the United States, I swear. Just yesterday, there was a guy in the pet store with a tiny kitten he'd found on a playground. He was all upset and sad because he only had dogs, and he wanted the pet store people to help him take care of it. I should have shot some video of that and put it on the internet. It would never make the evening news, of course. Things like that never do.
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Date: 2004-05-18 06:13 pm (UTC)'Course, I still haven't seen the video (it seems to be pretty hard to come by) and even if I did I would hardly be able to judge most of those listed discrepancies.
Even if the video was faked, it wouldn't change the fact that terrorists are scary dangerous people with no compunctions about murder, many of whom indulge in vile anti-Jewish/anti-Israeli conspiracy theories and hatred that would do Goebbels proud.
Nor would it make the Abu Gharib abuse-fest okay. (I have, by the way, seen rightist assertions that those photos were faked, which seems like utter BS to me -- if there were any genuine quibbles about the photos' authenticity we would have heard about it from the White House or from U.S. intelligence.)
It would, however, make me another ten percent scareder of my government than I already am.
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Date: 2004-05-18 06:15 pm (UTC)