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  • #46
    interestingly, there article on improving conditions in Kandahar, which i linked to earlier, is no longer to be found while "afghans live in fear" is still linked to from another negative piece.


    BBC DOES present good news on Afghanistan - just don't blink, or you'll miss it.
    "A person cannot approach the divine by reaching beyond the human. To become human, is what this individual person, has been created for.” Martin Buber

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    • #47
      Originally posted by lord of the mark
      AP didnt say they believed it, and neither did I. But a number from a local official would seem newsworthy, especially when most of the coalition troops on the ground were Afghans. And since the BBC had ALREADY used such a source ( or where else did their figure of 90 come from)
      Then why would you put '124 taliban killed' in your thread title if you didn't believe it...

      What I am alluding to is the blind bias of believing uncorroborated death tolls when they have a positive spin and pouring scorn on any figures involving civilian deaths as the US did immediately after the war in Afghanistan.

      Personally I am inclined to believe these independent local sources whether report dead taleban or civilians killed by US forces and allies - but that would mean that thousands more civilians died than the US are admitting to.

      That is what I mean by you can't have your cake and eat it.

      Which is it to be, because at the moment you seem only to be believing the figures that suit you - unless you freely accept that US forces were directly responsible for the deaths of thousands of Afghan civilians...
      Is it me, or is MOBIUS a horrible person?

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      • #48
        Originally posted by lord of the mark
        Why woud it be a major reverse, when, as the BBC has headlined, the Taleban is attempting to regain power, and afghanistan is "out of control". In that context a military victory by the Taleban is just what I would expect, and a military defeat by the Taleban would seem to be a major reverse.
        Only because in your bias, you twist it as such...

        Afghanistan is out of control because vast swathes of the country are lawless and under the nominal control of the taleban.

        HOWEVER that does not mean that the Taleban can beat coalition forces in open battle - THAT would be an incredibly worrying development indeed!

        Sorry, your anti-BBC bias just doesn't hold up to scrutiny...
        Is it me, or is MOBIUS a horrible person?

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        • #49
          Originally posted by lord of the mark
          interestingly, there article on improving conditions in Kandahar, which i linked to earlier, is no longer to be found while "afghans live in fear" is still linked to from another negative piece.

          BBC DOES present good news on Afghanistan - just don't blink, or you'll miss it.
          One effortless search later...

          Do you mean THIS ONE?

          or THIS ONE?

          here is another biased anti Afghanistan report by the BBC...

          Jeez, what did the Beeb do to you for you to be so biased against them...
          Is it me, or is MOBIUS a horrible person?

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          • #50
            Originally posted by lord of the mark I sees what i sees.


            QED! You see what you want to see...

            Sorry but your smear campaign has horrendously BACKFIRED because of your own bias!

            There is a word for that you know...

            Just say you were wrong and all this can go away - this thread will drop off the front page and we can limit the damage to your reputation...
            Is it me, or is MOBIUS a horrible person?

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            • #51
              Overall, I'm not going to hold the BBC accountable for their selective reporting, the US media does it on a grander scale.
              To us, it is the BEAST.

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              • #52
                BBC ignored it naturally
                That's because it must not have happened. Since it isn't on the BBC, the NYT, etc., etc., and the only place showing it is AP (a news organization with right-wing bias obviously), naturally it couldn't have happened.
                "Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before. He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way. "
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                • #53
                  Originally posted by Sava
                  and Bush was willing to let them be if they gave up bin Laden... the Northern Alliance ain't no picnic either...
                  It is all about 911. Vengeance.

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                  • #54
                    An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.
                    "Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before. He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way. "
                    -Bokonon

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                    • #55
                      Thank God America has all those Canine Companions.
                      Today, you are the waves of the Pacific, pushing ever eastward. You are the sequoias rising from the Sierra Nevada, defiant and enduring.

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                      • #56
                        Originally posted by Sava
                        Overall, I'm not going to hold the BBC accountable for their selective reporting, the US media does it on a grander scale.
                        US media isn't government funded.

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                        • #57
                          Thank God America has all those Canine Companions.
                          They seemed to be ignored by Shrub et al. When it comes to our leadership, it's the blind leading the blind.
                          "Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before. He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way. "
                          -Bokonon

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                          • #58
                            Well, make sure you vote for Nadar next election.

                            PLease, anything that splits the Opposition.
                            Today, you are the waves of the Pacific, pushing ever eastward. You are the sequoias rising from the Sierra Nevada, defiant and enduring.

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                            • #59
                              I live in Texas. There is no opposition.
                              "Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before. He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way. "
                              -Bokonon

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                              • #60
                                Originally posted by Ramo
                                An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.
                                Tell it to the people jumping out of the 90th floor of the WTC.

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