They don’t especially like it when we kill them and wreck their country.
March 28th, 2008The “they” is the Iraqis.
This video is courtesy of the incomparable Glenn Greenwald, who reminds us that
The significance of the interview lies as much in what it says about the American occupation of Iraq as it what it illustrates about the American media. In the American media’s discussions of Iraq, when are the perspectives expressed here about our ongoing occupation — views extremely common among Iraqis of all types and grounded in clear, indisputable facts — ever heard by the average American news consumer? The answer is: “virtually never.”Rose was as adversarial and argumentative — angry, even — as he ever gets with anyone, because he plainly did not anticipate, and did not like, that he was being exposed to such hostility towards our Freedom-spreading, Liberty-loving Liberation of the grateful, lucky (dead and displaced) Iraqi people.
I’ll also point out that Rose cut off Sinan Antoon, when Antoon tried to talk about the *actual* reason for the invasion, not the Bush Administration’s shifting rationale. He said that there was an “acquisition” of Iraq. At which point, Rose changed the subject. I would have loved to hear the opinions of actual Iraqis on that one.
Anyway… please do watch the video above. If you’ve got more time, you may want to peruse more Glenn and Digby and Emptywheel.
Yes, I was going to try and keep this blog non-political and keep politics to my politics-only-blog… but I just can’t.