->>  CA> I don't know who "Al-Jazeera" is.

->> saudi or iranian television station, IIRC...

 TW> 100% STATE controlled and a basic Propoganda arm of the
 TW> goverment.

yeah, but what government and/or state???

 TW> IF one wants the truth BBC is about the most NON biased
 TW> News Source in the world. They used to have streaming
 TW> Audio on the Internet and I listened to it regualrly..

do they have a channel on directTV like the FOX news channel that shows
this stuff nonstop with live video feeds from reporters in the field??

i'm not saying that FOX is unbiased but the reporters in the field are able
to get stuff out that rivals what i remember seeing as a kid coming from
'nam...

compared to 'nam, this isn't even close to anything known as a war...

shock and awe, in my mind, would have been similar in nature to the 'nam
era carpet bombing from B52s where literally thousands of bombs were
dropped on a target... only in this case, they would all have been GPS
guided... that first night's surprise bombing would have not only taken out
saddam's son but saddam as well if he was there and that place they were in
would have been nothing but a smoking crater... i could just see numerous
B52's dropping several hundred GPS guided bombs on one building... whoa!

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