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mine shows how some things are bad and how some things are good. a (seemingly) honest perspective. jq's show bad things without highlighting any of the good -- even for a devil's advocate view point (i'm not targeting the posters, just the articles).

I agree with you. I was just trying to give an alternative perspective.
I agree with Dave the Wonder Boy, the reporter who printed this story probably had to do some digging to find it; He had an agenda and he found an article. But what about the points the soldier makes:

" "After the broadcasting of recorded images of captured and dead US soldiers on Arab television, American and British leaders vowed revenge while verbally assaulting the networks for displaying such vivid images. Yet within hours of the deaths of Saddam Hussein's sons, the US government released horrific photographs of the two dead brothers for the entire world to view. Again, a "do as we say and not as we do" scenario."
-I'd never actually thought about this.

"But as a soldier preparing to take part in the invasion of Iraq, the words "shock and awe" rang deep within my psyche. Even as we prepared to depart, it seemed that these two great superpowers were about to break the very rules that they demanded others obey. Without the consent of the United Nations, and ignoring the pleas of their own citizens, the US and Britain invaded Iraq."


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again, i don't mind the concept of "exposing the bad." not only is that important, its necessary. however, i'm hoping to not receive an exposed view, but rather, an exposed truth; facts. and, if you're going to print the facts that make things look bad, i want equal "air time" for the facts that make things look good.
What about the truth? Hypothetically speaking, lets say we knew as a fact everything in Iraq was qoing good. Would it be honest to jam in "bad" stuff too? Why not just print the facts that make things "look like" they really are. Watch most analysts on TV, they stick to a point and provide evidence to back it up.

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i mean, i dont like my boss or the things my company does too much... but i'm not about to publish that information in a newspaper! all that would accomplish is to:

1) annoy my co-workers who disagree with me.
2) surely infuriate my superiors.
3) make my life hell. or at least an unemployed variation.
That doesn't work. You're not working for the biggest military in the world, your boss doesn't make what are probably the most important decisions in the world, and your company doesn't have a direct and inderect effect on the well-being of hundreds of millions of people. Your not being told to risk your life, and your co-workers; But I understand what you were trying to say.


On a side-note, I think the war in Iraq is going really well. But it's the motives of everyone involved that I'm still not clear on.