Seeing as George (Mena) has raised the topic to the Austechwriter list, I urge you to not take it all on face value. Having a diversity of information from different viewpoints is worthwhile. The following Flash animation puts things in quite a different perspective. Note: Some people might find some of the included images to be distressing. <http://www.disgraced.org/thanks.shtml> Plays a Frank Sinatra tune, so turn down your volume @ work. Sent to me by a colleague in the US. For more on the political persecution and ill treatment of journalists, see <http://www.ifj.org/>, where you will find a link to the "IFJ Report on Safety of Journalists and Killing of Media Staff During the Iraq War" PDF <http://www.ifj.org/pdfs/iraqreport2003.pdf>. Hope that enlightens a little or at least causes you to question what we are spoon fed by the media, in these murky times. Cheers, Michael Michael Granat -- Write Ideas* Plain English Technical Communication. Advertising Copywriting. Business Writing. E-mail: writeideas@xxxxxxxx Web Site: <http://home.pacific.net.au/~megranat/> *Trading As business #0828673K Registered (1987) Corporate Affairs Victoria, Australia. WITHOUT PREJUDICE E & OE ************************************************** To post a message to austechwriter, send the message to austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx To subscribe to austechwriter, send a message to austechwriter-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with "subscribe" in the Subject field. To unsubscribe, send a message to austechwriter-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe" in the Subject field. To search the austechwriter archives, go to www.freelists.org/archives/austechwriter To contact the list administrator, send a message to austechwriter-admins@xxxxxxxxxxxxx **************************************************