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Published on Monday, November 19, 2007

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Many 'real numbers' excluded from Iraq editorial
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Presenting numbers in a biased way like you did neither informed nor made a decision for people. Instead, all you did was point out the biased negatives. When you have a caricature of President Bush and a cartoon drawing of Iraq with Christian crosses, you made a biased decision on your editorial as to where you stand.

When will you focus on how women now have rights? Or the children that can now go to school? People getting an education in Iraq is revolutionary! Comparing the voting statistic was ridiculous. Try being ruled by an evil dictator that used to kill his own people for decades. Are you going to show up and vote at the polls? Do they understand their own freedom now?

You forgot to mention the true numbers. Like the lives saved by not being killed by genocide by people named “Chemical Ali” or Saddam Hussein. Write about the two fighting factions of the Kurds and Shiites that are causing the problems. Write about the dissidents that are sworn to America’s destruction. Write about the American lives saved by fighting a war half a world away.

Those are the real numbers. And they are unbiased.


Aaron Greenberg
Senior, mathematics


By HastertVotesAgainstStudentsAgain  |  Tuesday, November 20, 2007  |  10:26 am
BEST response Aaron, good job, don\'t stop. MORE real numbers left off. Number of current WMDs found (reason for invasion) 0.
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