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Originally Posted by fatboy
Then you don't have a problem with FOX news reporting? They're just reporting the facts.
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*sigh*
Why donīt you start reading the entire posts, instead of browsing them?
I already said this. Fox news doesnīt just report the facts, they elaborate it to fit their opinion of what the facts should be. They spend more time making up assumptions and suppositions. Read the previous post. I have no time or patience to point obvious things to your attention. If you donīt wish to read it, then abstein yourself from commenting it.
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Well, it does matter. If those 40 people were on their way to planting car bombs in Shi'a neighborhoods, or on their way to joining forces with Sadr, or on their way to strapping on bombs and blowing themselves up in another crowded Iraqi market then I think it's a good thing they're dead.
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If? There is no "if" here. Journalism is not about "
if"s and "
maybe"s.
These are the facts, no matter from wich side you look at them:
-An incident took place= fact
-Close to the Syrian border=fact
-The US bombed the site=fact
-40 were dead, including many women and many children=fact
-Shots were heard=fact
All the rest are possibilities, assumptions, and just pretty much opinions.
-Some of the dead were foreign fighters=assumption
-They were preparing to commit acts of terrorism=assumption
-The US forces were fired upon=possibility, no proof.
-The site was used as a foreign fighterīs waypoint=possibility. no proof.
-There was a marriage going=likely possibility, no proof.
-The women and children were also terrorists=assumption, or downright false.
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Right. Just like you did with this post. You have no more information that we do and yet your opinion latches quickly on to believing one side of the story. You would make a good reporter, but evidently not one you care to hear from.
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*double sigh*
You said it right, my OPINION!
And I am not a reporter, am i? Itīs not my job to report facts. A forum exists to state peopleīs opinions, (based on facts) and not to act as an extension of the media. If i wanted to make a post solely made of knowned facts, and repeat what was said on the news, i would have only posted a link to some news media. If i elaborated, it was because i was stating my OPINION on the matter.
The facts are simple, i did not alter the facts. The bombing DID happened. Or do you dispute that? There were 40 or so dead, including many women and children. Do you dispute that aswell? This is the basis for the thread. 40 are dead, in what was probably a marriage celebration. In my OPINION, they were wrong to bomb it, because they had no reason for it, and no idea of who they would be harming, period.