[extropy-chat] Re: Meta: Too far

[Mike Lorrey]

The New York Times is not a reliable news source.

--- Damien Broderick <thespike at satx.rr.com> wrote:

> At 04:28 PM 6/29/2005 -0700, Mike wrote:
> 
> >Noriega declared war on
> >the US five days before the invasion, and killed a US officer. It is
> >hardly 'bullshit'.
> 
> That's amazingly impressive and speedy work! Invade a nation with
> less than 
> 5 days warning.
> 
> There are other versions:
> 
> http://www.chss.montclair.edu/english/furr/panamainv.html
> 
> "The US media showed little curiosity about the Dec. 16 confrontation
>      that led to the death of a US Marine officer and the injury of
> another
>      when they tried to run a roadblock in front of the PDF
> headquarters.
>      The officers were supposedly "lost."  In view of what is now
> known
>      about the intense pre-invasion preparations then underway ("NY
> Times,"
>      12/24/89), is it possible the Marines were actually trying to
> track
>      Noriega's whereabouts?
>        The Panamanian version of the event was that the US soldiers,
> upon
>      being discovered, opened fire--injuring three civilians,
> including a
>      child--and then tried to run the roadblock.  This version was
> largely
>      ignored by US journalists even after the shooting two days later
> of a
>      Panamanian corporal who "signaled a US serviceman to stop,"
> according
>      to the administration.  "The US serviceman felt threatened," the
>      administration claimed, after admitting that its earlier story
> that
>      the Panamanian had pulled his gun was false ("NYT," 12/19/89)"
> 
> Damien Broderick 
> 
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Mike Lorrey
Vice-Chair, 2nd District, Libertarian Party of NH
"Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom.
It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves."
                                      -William Pitt (1759-1806) 
Blog: http://intlib.blogspot.com


		
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