:angry: On Saturday, one year ago, the US led coalition invaded Iraq. On Saturday I read my local newspaper. I watched CNN, CBC and other stations. I was so angry at the reporting, commentary and the left leaning slant of it all (the war reportage in retrospect). That is why I am writing today after a bit of steam has blown off and the engine inside my head cooled. I wondered how can the media, specially that in Canada, be so anti-american and anti Bush. On Sunday I watched a program on TVO where a special speaker had a chance to speak his view. Amazingly he gave an hour long talk on anti-Americanism and where the roots of it originated. Knowing now the brief history of anti-Americanism in Canada, add to that a conservative like Pres Bush, I can see how some (most?) Canadians can go ballistic in regards to US actions.
Now that being said… It is as I wrote in an ealier post about Iraq and the media. If they can’t get their facts straight they would serve the community better by remaining silent. In an age like ours we can no longer afford the luxury of miss-informed(?) rhetoric passing for news. If politics remain as usual then all I can say is pray for the world. People are going to die because some benefit from speaking falsehoods. The rest form opinions on these errors and falsehoods. Until we desire truth more than anything else… our actions will never be right except by accident.