Just about everyone covered Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld’s remarks on the “defiance” of Iraq in the no-fly zones, which seems to be the Iraqi-evil-of-the-day at the White House. The no-fly zones were established by the US, Britain and France to protect minority ethnic groups in Iraq after the Gulf War. “It bothers the dickens out of me that US and British pilots are getting fired at day after day after day, with impunity,” says Rumsfeld. White House spokesman Ari Fleischer announced that attacks on US and British patrols have increased in frequency since the September 16th consent from Iraq to unconditional weapons inspections.
BBC loved that “dickens” quote so much, it’s they’re pull-out. The BBC conspicously fails to mention that the increase in Iraqi attacks on US and British patrols might have something to do with the US and British attacks on Iraqi command-and-control assets.
CNN was also sadly lacking critique of the White House story, going so far as to quote a mysterious and redundant senior Administration official: ” “This is not a dictator who is merely intent to oppress his own people. He has regional ambitions outside his own borders … one more indication of the hostile nature of this regime.”
a technology job is no excuse 