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Thomas Vorce reporting from Grass Valley, CA
Friday, April 30, 2004
Yesterday I was sitting in the car waiting while my wife shopped. I had nothing to do so I began to look for stations on the radio (here in the Gila the pickins are slim.) I came across a rock station in S.E Arizona that was doing oldies with slick upbeat corporate commercials (Sounds like Clear Channel to me.)
The DJ announced that the results of a recent survey from Iraq were in and 70% of those surveyed said anything would be better than Sadam Hussien. And 41% of all Iraqis said they are better off and more optimistic about the future of Iraq since the American occupation.
The day before yesterday I listened to a recent Pulitzer Prize winning journalist being interviewed for his coverage of Iraq. He was embedded with American troops and mentioned that it was too dangerous to go out alone. So how did the aforementioned survey get such “objective” results?
That afternoon I listened to Amy Goodman and heard that the survey results were just the opposite! 71% of Iraqis interviewed said that they would be happier if the US would leave Iraq. Well, what the Hell, maybe there are more defense contractors in Arizona.
We here in New Mexico are more liberal and in Santa Fe the information flows freely. While in Los Alamos and Soccoro, petit bourgeois scientists work 5 days a week on bunker busters and depleted uranium. And on weekends their wives go to garage sales of the economically oppressed who are not employed by defense contractors. Those scientists have IQ’s that are in the hundreds, while their values seem a bit oblique. Did it ever occur to them that there was something else they could do that might be more beneficial for humanity?
And I know they are good people because they go to Congregational church on Sunday and, of course, they buy my stuff at garage sales.
But we can rest assured. I understand they are going to reissue the draft. And they intend to conscript both men and women; no exceptions. How democratic is that? Of course, many young people are probably thinking, “There goes my career in the fashion industry!”
The DJ announced that the results of a recent survey from Iraq were in and 70% of those surveyed said anything would be better than Sadam Hussien. And 41% of all Iraqis said they are better off and more optimistic about the future of Iraq since the American occupation.
The day before yesterday I listened to a recent Pulitzer Prize winning journalist being interviewed for his coverage of Iraq. He was embedded with American troops and mentioned that it was too dangerous to go out alone. So how did the aforementioned survey get such “objective” results?
That afternoon I listened to Amy Goodman and heard that the survey results were just the opposite! 71% of Iraqis interviewed said that they would be happier if the US would leave Iraq. Well, what the Hell, maybe there are more defense contractors in Arizona.
We here in New Mexico are more liberal and in Santa Fe the information flows freely. While in Los Alamos and Soccoro, petit bourgeois scientists work 5 days a week on bunker busters and depleted uranium. And on weekends their wives go to garage sales of the economically oppressed who are not employed by defense contractors. Those scientists have IQ’s that are in the hundreds, while their values seem a bit oblique. Did it ever occur to them that there was something else they could do that might be more beneficial for humanity?
And I know they are good people because they go to Congregational church on Sunday and, of course, they buy my stuff at garage sales.
But we can rest assured. I understand they are going to reissue the draft. And they intend to conscript both men and women; no exceptions. How democratic is that? Of course, many young people are probably thinking, “There goes my career in the fashion industry!”
