Originally posted by: MAME
Originally posted by: przero
"but I'm pretty damn sure he's not as bad as the Government makes him out to be"
Mass Graves
I would say 300,000 mass graves make him out to be a bad as ANYONE describes!
Ok, I'm going to use a little logic here so if you stay with me I think we can both agree on the conclusion.
We have a government that wants to invade Iraq. (This may or may not be a good thing, but that doesn't matter). To do so, they go digging up bad things about them and sharing it with the public. Now they have 2 options: tell the truth and hope it's enough to get support to invade OR they can talk about weapons of mass destruction and other type "possibilities" that while COULD be true, are probably just propaganda to get support.
Of course they'll try and make him out to be a worse person than he really is. HOWEVER, this is not to say he's actually a very bad person. All I'm saying is that no matter what he's done, it makes sense they'll come up with anything/everything they can to get support. I'm not saying it's good or bad thing, just that he's not a bad as we've been told. (For example, the videos and pictures they show are always selected to show some sort of negative thing.)
Remember on 9/11/01 when they showed all the kids and people in the Middle-East jumping up and down in joy? Then it turned out that was from years before or something totally unrelated? The media/govt is pretty good about selective feeding of information.