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What a powerful weapon it is the propaganda!
Jean-Marc FLAMENT
Thursday, 6 March 2003 15:28:28
(n. f. this message is one of the latter ones on the discussion of the war, which has been sent before the coffee break. We want from you then please don't to reply it, except if it is to talk about actions, initiatives, etc. for peace - against this war. We are sorry of being unable of letting a parallel discussion based only on geopolitical issues to be developed on the list, for which we had envisaged or planned anything)
What a powerful weapon it is the propaganda!
Marie-Christine BERNARD writes: * the people of Iraq doesn't have to die from their dictator's anguishes! When a secret service of the World Parliament will * remove * efficiently the monsters with a cold heart such as S. Hussein? *
Saddam Hussein is not certainly a saint. He is not keen towards the objectors to his internal power since he would have make execute some among them and otherwise everybody knows its use of chemical weapons against a nonconformist Kurdish village... with the support of the United States that immediately got an ally in order to fight Iran, and provided him of anthrax.
The word * monster * should be written in plural as much as the present members of Bush's milieu helped Saddam Hussein to guide his shootings of chemical weapons against Iran therefore.
But what you seems to ignore, it is that a very broad majority of the Iraqi people likes and supports Saddam Hussein. Because he brought to them: 1) free education 2) access to free medicines 3) freedom of cult and tolerance between the various religions (to the grand prejudice of the Saudi Arabian fundamentalists) 4) the respect of the woman's rights (the veil was never mandatory in Iraq, they are not stoned in case of adultery, nor even pursued and they have access to jobs unavailable in other Moslem countries) 5) the prosperity (before the embargo)
My son came back from Baghdad where he participated in a jogging for the Peace.
He have conversed freely with the population. Of course, for the young people, that only knew the war and the embargo, Saddam Hussein's cult comes from their parents, spotlights, , media or the school but those aged more than thirty years old vow him a sincere affection. For them, he is not a dictator but an illuminated despot.
On the other hand, one never mentions the régimes supported by the United States, among others in Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, and Arabian Emirates. Are they democratic régimes, have they abolished sharia?
And we never mention the present pseudo democracies of US, UK, Spain and Italy of which the leaders (it can be translated to führers) act in opposition to the determination of their public opinion.
The blazes of cancers and malformations to the birth, observed in the countries that were in war with the United States because of the tests of new weapons to which they proceed in every opportunity, are rarely mentioned. (Japan, Vietnam, Korea, Kosovo, Iraq...)
There is such a propaganda, that makes it difficult for the man of the street not to be "under influence." What does it mean the word "dictator" when this one respond to his people's aspirations and what does it mean the word "democracy" when the head does the opposite. Can anybody explain it to me?!
Have a look on this poll elaborated by the Greek Presidency of the EU.
<http://evote.eu2003.gr/evote/(cu5dw345lea3mh30o55rvwvu)/start.aspx?poll=2> At the time where I answered there, there were already more of 35.000 answers and there was among others the following data: To the question: according to your information, do you think that an attack against Iraq is justified by now...
2,7% answer: "Yes, "absolutely 4,9% answer: "Yes, but that disturbs me in some way " 36,7% answer: "No, not necessary now" 55,7% answer: "No, absolutely not"
On the 35.348 votes, 16,1% give to the United States the most positive opinion and 49,1% give them the most negative opinion. 14,6% rather distribute themselves between a positive judgment or neutral and 20,1% rather between a neutral judgment and a negative judgment.
Iraq have the most positive judgment in 11,2% of the suffrages and the most negative in 24,7% of the cases.
This shows clearly that if the US, culturally closer of European, have hardly more positive judgments, they cash on the other hand the double of negative judgments. US are frightening more than Iraq so consequently are them who should disarm.
Thus propaganda has nevertheless its own limits! Not everybody is more believing on it.
It is instructive for our American friends to measure the world impact of the policy of the Bush administration while seeing these results in the region of the world which has been traditionally the more American-friendly.
And we are still at the second war of a long list programmed by the American führer.
Jean-Marc Flament
WP21 Alliance Forum on a World Parliament for the 21st Century
E-mail : world-parl@forums.alliance21.org
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