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meshou
26 Jan 2007, 03:40 AM
The reporter on this is asking online communities to pass this on, since it won't make TV news.

http://www.cbsnews.com/sections/i_video/main500251.shtml?id=2371456n
kuranes
26 Jan 2007, 03:49 AM
I tried to play it and I guess it was incompatible with my set-up. it eneded up locking up the computer until I did a special re-set. Maybe those who view it can summarize.
meshou
26 Jan 2007, 03:51 AM
Sunni and Shiite groups are fighting a couple blocks from the green zone.

Allegations of the Iraqi army shooting unarmed civilians by civilians.
Conan
26 Jan 2007, 03:51 AM
That was one of the most insightful videos I've seen. As much as the media talks about Iraq I never feel like I really know what's going on.
nfinityi
26 Jan 2007, 04:00 AM
What Esteban said.
brett
26 Jan 2007, 04:00 AM
I tried to play it and I guess it was incompatible with my set-up. it eneded up locking up the computer until I did a special re-set. Maybe those who view it can summarize.

Just watched it, to summarize:

People are fighting. People are dying. People are blaming the Iraqi government / army and the US for making Baghdad worse than before Saddam.
Conan
26 Jan 2007, 04:01 AM
Sunni militants are fucking up Shiite soldiers. Shiite soldiers are fucking up Sunni civilians. Civilians are pissed off and scared.
fripping
26 Jan 2007, 04:33 AM
The war in Iraq is totally fucked? Holy shit, who knew?! Good thing CBS is keeping this story under wraps or it might cause an uproar!
meshou
26 Jan 2007, 04:42 AM
The war in Iraq is totally fucked? Holy shit, who knew?! Good thing CBS is keeping this story under wraps or it might cause an uproar!It might. News is political. You wouldn't want to be accused of "liberal media" bullshit just for saying what's happening.

You want to appear unbiased. Here, unbiased just means centerist. This would not support a centerist agenda very well.
C.J.Woolf
26 Jan 2007, 04:56 AM
It might. News is political. You wouldn't want to be accused of "liberal media" bullshit just for saying what's happening.

You want to appear unbiased. Here, unbiased just means centerist. This would not support a centerist agenda very well.
Remember the phony Texas Air National Guard document hoax that was played on Dan Rather and CBS News during the 2004 campaign? Not only did it save Bush's ass on the AWOL front, it scared CBS out of running stories unfavorable to Republicans ever since. That's a lot of stories.

"Reality has a well-known liberal bias." -- Stephen Colbert
Conan
26 Jan 2007, 05:13 AM
The war in Iraq is totally fucked? Holy shit, who knew?! Good thing CBS is keeping this story under wraps or it might cause an uproar!

Yes, they tell us all the time that its fucked up but they never seem to go on the ground and show us real footage of how fucked up it is. Its much easier to ignore when we don't actually have to see the carnage.