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WHY I'M NOT AN NPR MEMBER #2

A group of Americans/Britons called Voices in the Wilderness were given airtime on NPR today. The group is in Iraq monitoring the bombing campaign. They have been loud opponents of the sanctions for some time now, and one would hope that they would embrace the invasion as the first step to normalizing Iraq, but no.

This group already has their villain all picked out. It’s the United States Government, of course.

The girl being interviewed said they were going to hospitals and taking account of the civilian wounded. She went on and on about civilian casualties and talking about the children who are hurt.

What was annoying about this report is that the NPR reporter asked none of the obvious questions.

1) Were the injuries caused by U.S. weapons or Iraqi weapons?
2) Did you see U.S. bombs hit these people or did the Iraqi government tell you that?
3) Do you know if the people hurt were in residential areas where the Iraqis are storing weapons?
4) Can you be sure the wounded people weren’t being used as human shields by the government?
5) Do you worry that the Iraqi government could use your group as a propaganda tool?
6) Finally, if the United Nations lifted the sanctions on Iraq and the U.S. decided not to invade, would the people in Kuwait be any better off than the people you worry about in Iraq?

These groups are suspicious because they can find moral relativism between any two-bit dictator and the United States. The fact that they are only interested in U.S. atrocities and ready to look the other way at Iraqi wrongdoing demonstrates what frauds they are. The reporter had a chance to get them on record for the real questions, but instead the reporter took everything the girl said to be fact. Is that news reporting or is that a cleverly disguised anti-American agenda.