The media, at least here in the United States, could have done more to stop it. Yahoo didn’t allow discussion about articles for the first time, and AOL censors comments to online news. Moreover, the media said nothing about Saddam’s pardons and commuting of death sentences in Iraq, only comments about how cruel he was. Hussein also complied with the U.N., and no WMDs existed, the reason Bush’s used to conduct the illegal invasion.
Saddam’s brutal son was also killed, but so was his grandson. There could have been other family members killed, and Iraq has had a much higher casualty rate since the U.S. began hostilities in Iraq in March of 2003. What about taking that into account besides?
I don’t see what I want in communicating about it. The Iraqi Sunnis have contributed to making a mockery of the U.N., giving it the same credibility of a U.S. peace treaty with Native Americans. We can also remember that Jefferson Davis, president of the Confederate States of America, did not even get prosecuted fully, lived a full life to 81 with much public service after the South’s defeat. "God help us all." -- Roger Waters
I meant Shi'ite or Shi'a contributed to making a mockery of the U.N. rather than Sunni, as Saddan was Sunni. Moreover, the U.S. certainly helped, and many claim Iraq still does not have complete sovereignty. IMHO, my mistake seems an easier mistake to undo than Saddam's hanging, which Shi'ites and Bush cannot take back. Our government even held on to him till the hanging.
Republicanism has its own polemics, and though Madison does not state it specifically in _Federalist 51_, a free press, not only in an Ameican-style republic mind you, provides "auxiliary precautions" to have government oblige to control itself after it controls the governed. These tools to properly guide society existed even before the American Revolution.
Blogs also appear part of media now, and at least one blog also censored my post like AOL appears to, http://www.bettnet.com/blog/, and though I'm not Roman Catholic, I gave a rather specific response. Also, Machiavelli, the "George Washington of Italy" said that a properly informed people make better decisions than a prince in his _The Discourses_.
Whether the media could help manage for a better society for the Coalition or U.S. or Iraq presents an issue, and so does whether American society needs more "auxiliary precautions." I would argue it does because otherwise it would make cheap victories and brutal regimes seem great.
CHAPTER XXXIV
"... The people, therefore, in the election of Magistrates judge according to the best evidence that they can obtain, and err less than Princes..." -- Machiavelli
"A free press can of course be good or bad, but, most certainly, without freedom it will never be anything but bad. . . . Freedom is nothing else but a chance to bet better, whereas enslavement is a certainty of the worse." -- Albert Camus, Resistance, Rebellion and Death (1960)
French existentialist author & philosopher (1913 - 1960)
from http://www.quotationspage.com/qu...uote/
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