Lee wrote,

>This opens a whole line of short takes, each with an interesting twist of
>its own.
>- Filtered news or deliberate lies?

All news is filtered by the individual news organization in accordance with
their agenda. And all politicians lie at one time or another. Come to think
of it, everyone does :-)

The key is to create your own funnel, and then be your own filter. I read
CNN.com, BBC.com, 2 Danish newspapers, one Singaporean, and one Thai, every
single morning. On top of that Time, Newsweek, Far Eastern Economic Review,
The Economist, and BusinessWeek every single week. I don't watch news on TV
unless there is a war on, and then only for the pretty (or not so pretty)
pictures. With that amount of information, from that many sources, you will
be sure to find a large amount of opposing views. If you restrict yourself
to one or two news sources, you are taking a knife to a gunfight :-)

>- Which one of us is getting filtered, I who heard our only interest was
>national security or you who heard we also had interest in changing the
>Iraqi form of government?

What a weird question. You are, obviously. I heard more than you did. Duh.
:-) (Or I paid better attention :-))

>- Do you suppose it might be possible that both of us got what would give
us
>the most comfort?  Us that we weren't an imperialistic agressor, you that
we
>were interested in bringing freedom to an oppressed people?

You pre-suppose that I didn't hear both. I did. And I believe both.

- And why would you not find comfort in liberating an oppressed people ?

Bjorn