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Snellius Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-30-03 10:07 AM
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FOX News Showing Graphic Torture Videos
of Saddam's Fadeeyn beating prisoners and throwing them alive off a 100 foot wall. They are crushed and crumple on the ground as they still writhe in pain. More to come, they promise: videos of victims being torn limb from limb by dogs as Saddam watches on.
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Radical__Moderate Donating Member (55 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-30-03 10:08 AM
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1. That sould improve their ratings
with their base audiance
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underpants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-30-03 10:13 AM
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7. I once came across their "Magazine" show -a feedback forum
Edited on Thu Oct-30-03 10:19 AM by underpants
The hostess said that many viewers e-mailed them to tell them how much they enjoyed the car chase footage and could they please show some more. They went into a 10 minute stream of the "greatest car chases and wrecks" I'm not kidding they had it set to music.
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Media_Lies_Daily Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-30-03 10:09 AM
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2. How primitive!...
We take them for helicopter rides before dropping them.
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Skittles Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-30-03 10:10 AM
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3. Will he be shown using WMD on them???
FOX is f***ing DESPERATE.
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wtmusic Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-30-03 10:11 AM
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4. Is there anything fundamentally different
between Saddam's enjoyment of this spectacle and Fox viewers'?
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WhoCountsTheVotes Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-30-03 10:14 AM
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9. Nope, not a bit of difference
very good point.
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slackmaster Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-30-03 10:12 AM
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5. I hope they run some with lions mauling people
Lions are cool.

:eyes:
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Minstrel Boy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-30-03 10:13 AM
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6. Are you sure it's not a trailer for a new Fox series,
"Saddam's Most Incredible Home Videos"?

Death-porn dealers. Hope they're proud.

Naturally, since the war's hit some rough patches, they need to crank up the justification with snuff film titilation.
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underpants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-30-03 10:15 AM
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11. I guess there is no footage of Americans dying per W's orders
No surely none at all. I'm not saying that I really want to see it but if they are trying (this whole thing is sick IMHO) to establish how horrible Saddam was (and he was) are they going to show the gorefest that is this illegal war?
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kodi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-30-03 10:16 AM
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13. no, its called "when US supported dictators go bad"
i bet that many of saddam atrocities were done while hussein was a US ally.

will fox run a bottom of the screen scroll that points that out?
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underpants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-30-03 10:19 AM
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15. What like this?
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wtmusic Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-30-03 10:29 AM
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20. This was before poison gas was uncool
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AWD Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-30-03 10:14 AM
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8. Remember - Saddam bad!
What WMD? Nobody said WMD! These are not the droids you are looking for.
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underpants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-30-03 10:17 AM
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14. Are they going to take a camera to Ward 57 at Walter Reed? Ft.Stewart?
Ramstein Air Base?

Oh what am I thinking they can't even show the caskets coming off the planes at Dover.
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dpbrown Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-30-03 10:14 AM
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10. How timely, now that Vietnam testimony just came out
Showing how the U.S. Tiger-something elites torched and blew up civilians in Vietnam.

FOX, of course, is running cover because anybody with any sense might then remember that Amnesty International has been complaining about torture in Afghanistan and Guantanamo.

"2+2=..."(FOX NEWS ALERT!!!!! DEAD PEOPLE IN A OCCUPIED COUNTRY WITH A GOVERNMENT THAT NO LONGER EXISTS DID BAD THINGS!!!! We now return you to your regularly scheduled program)"...trust the government."

Kucinich: Better Ideas, Better Candidate - it's just that simple

Dan Brown
Saint Paul, Minnesota
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AWD Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-30-03 10:16 AM
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12. How do we KNOW it's Saddam's men???
It could be Saudis or Paki fundamentailists doing this.

Do we have ANY knowledge besides Roger Ailes band of propagandists to verify this is Saddam's men doing this?

Granted, Saddam was evil, but I don't beleive a word these fascist fuckwits say until it's verified by LEGITIMATE sources.
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gratuitous Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-30-03 10:21 AM
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16. Yes, and some of us have been protesting the Saddam regime for decades
We knew all about this reprehensible behavior, and petitioned the government to do something about it. We were met with collective yawns. But in 1983, Donald Rumsfeld went over to shake Saddam's hand and supply him with just enough weaponry to prosecute Saddam's war against Iran. Not enough weapons to win, but enough to keep fighting and killing.

Some of us continued to denounce the inhuman regime of Saddam Hussein and expose his torture, but in 1998 Dick Cheney's Halliburton did some $23 million worth of business with Saddam.

So, what is Faux's point? Saddam is a bad, bad man? Known it for years, decades even. How about some footage of Mr. Rumsfeld propping up the bad, bad man? Or some analysis of just how much of Mr. Cheney's personal wealth is attributable to his business dealings with the bad, bad man?
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underpants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-30-03 10:25 AM
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17. Again
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DuctapeFatwa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-30-03 10:26 AM
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18. Will they be showing footage of Crusaders "interrogating suspects?"

If their goal is to inspire more enthusiasm for the Crusade, they should.

The voting elite wants to be shown that Americans can be even more brutal than Saddam. That's what it's all about, that's what the sons of their servants are fighting for.
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Cat Atomic Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-30-03 10:27 AM
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19. I hope they include the American statements of support .
Some people knew Hussein was a cruel bastard back when America was supporting him. Fox likes to call these people "peaceniks" and "traitors".
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lefty_mcduff Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-30-03 10:42 AM
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21. I'm Confused.
O'reilly told us that 'Texas Chainsaw Massacre" was partially responsible for the breakdown of society, and that sexy stuff on MTV was responsible for tennage pregnancy.

Won't this have a detrimental effect on the kiddies?
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Brucey Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-30-03 10:53 AM
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22. Cool, sounds like something that will give repugs
a hard on.
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zbdent Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-30-03 01:09 PM
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23. When a RWer points out the brutality, remind them that these are
the people Bush was working with until 1 month before Saddam's forces attacked Kuwait.

Also remind them (especially if they bring up that that was a long time ago) that Cheney was doing business with Saddam through 1998.
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kskiska Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-30-03 01:24 PM
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24. It doesn't seem to be "resignating"
They're playing to the choir. Remember the footage of (Iraqis?) gassing the puppy? Guess they thought they'd try again.
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oc2002 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-30-03 01:41 PM
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25. So now the questions is "Whats the diference between Fox and Sadam?"
Anyone actually putting this material out, which is NOT NEWS, is a 'SNUFF' film pervert.

Sick, and should be ostracized by the general media.
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RummyTheDummy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-30-03 01:47 PM
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26. Old news......
That same footage was aired during the "war" last March-April yet Fox presented it as something new and "breaking".
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caledesi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-30-03 01:48 PM
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27. The "Fundie" scare technique. nt
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