[Media-watch] Britain at war
Mark and Andrea Priestley
priestley at onetel.net.uk
Tue Mar 11 23:31:28 GMT 2003
<SPAN
class=342553623-11032003>Andrew Marr continues to treat the impending war as an
opportunity to display his sparkling wit to TV audiences. Tonight he made some
comments about Britian being at war on the telephone, with members of the UN.
This of course obscures the virtual lack of BBC reporting about the war that has
been already going on for months, as the no-fly zones are targeted by US and
British planes.
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<SPAN
class=342553623-11032003>Write to Andrew Marr at <A
href="mailto:andrew.marr at bbc.co.uk">andrew.marr at bbc.co.uk
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Dear
Andrew
I was intrigued
tonight to hear you state on the BBC 10pm bulletin that Britain was not yet at
war, except on the phone. Leaving aside my objections to your usual flippancy, I
have to point out that the facts differ somewhat from your analysis. Britain and
America have in fact bombed Iraqi installations on a regular basis since the new
year. I suppose this begs the question: when is a war not a war? There seem to
be two possible answers:
When the BBC does
not report it.
When we are bombing
Arabs (or non-people according to conventional wisdom).
I would be
interested in knowing which of these answers you believe to be
correct.
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According to US
Bombing Watch (<A
href="http://www.ccmep.org/usbombingwatch/2003.htm">http://www.ccmep.org/usbombingwatch/2003.htm)
the following raids have taken place this year. Click on the links for further
information.
<A
href="http://www.ccmep.org/usbombingwatch/2003.htm#3/10/03">March
10th
<A
href="http://www.ccmep.org/usbombingwatch/2003.htm#3/9/03">March
9th
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borderColor=#111111 height=200 cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width=144 align=right
background=../images/ibc_tall_backg.gif border=0>
<TD
style="FONT-SIZE: 79%; LINE-HEIGHT: 1.25em; FONT-FAMILY: arial,helvetica,sans-serif"
vAlign=bottom height=164><A
href="http://www.iraqbodycount.org/">
<TD
style="FONT-SIZE: 79%; LINE-HEIGHT: 1.25em; FONT-FAMILY: arial,helvetica,sans-serif"
vAlign=center align=middle width=144 height=36><A
href="http://www.iraqbodycount.org/">
document.write("<img src='http://www.iraqbodycount.net/counters/ibc_a.gif" +
"?" + Math.floor((new Date()).getTime()/900000) + "' " +
"width='136' height='28' border='0' " +
"alt='www.iraqbodycount.org'>");
<A
href="http://www.ccmep.org/usbombingwatch/2003.htm#3/8/03">March
8th
<A
href="http://www.ccmep.org/usbombingwatch/2003.htm#3/7/03"><FONT face=Arial
size=2>March 7th
<A
href="http://www.ccmep.org/usbombingwatch/2003.htm#3/6/03"><FONT face=Arial
size=2>March 6th
<A
href="http://www.ccmep.org/usbombingwatch/2003.htm#3/3/03">March
3rd
<A
href="http://www.ccmep.org/usbombingwatch/2003.htm#2/28/03">February
28th
<A
href="http://www.ccmep.org/usbombingwatch/2003.htm#2/27/03">February
27th
<A
href="http://www.ccmep.org/usbombingwatch/2003.htm#2/26/03">February
26th
<A
href="http://www.ccmep.org/usbombingwatch/2003.htm#2/25/03">February
25th
<A
href="http://www.ccmep.org/usbombingwatch/2003.htm#2/23/03">February
23rd
<A
href="http://www.ccmep.org/usbombingwatch/2003.htm#2/23/03"><FONT face=Arial
size=2>February 22nd
<A
href="http://www.ccmep.org/usbombingwatch/2003.htm#2/18/03"><FONT face=Arial
size=2>February 18th
<A
href="http://www.ccmep.org/usbombingwatch/2003.htm#2/16/03">February
16th
<A
href="http://www.ccmep.org/usbombingwatch/2003.htm#2/15/03">February
15th
<A
href="http://www.ccmep.org/usbombingwatch/2003.htm#2/14/03"><FONT face=Arial
size=2>February 14th
<A
href="http://www.ccmep.org/usbombingwatch/2003.htm#2/14/03">February
12th
<A
href="http://www.ccmep.org/usbombingwatch/2003.htm#2/11/03">February
11th
<A
href="http://www.ccmep.org/usbombingwatch/2003.htm#2/10/03"><FONT face=Arial
size=2>February<A
href="http://www.ccmep.org/usbombingwatch/2003.htm#2/10/03">
10th
<A
href="http://www.ccmep.org/usbombingwatch/2003.htm#2/10/03"><FONT face=Arial
size=2>February 8th
<A
href="http://www.ccmep.org/usbombingwatch/2003.htm#1/31/03">January
31st
<A
href="http://www.ccmep.org/usbombingwatch/2003.htm#3/3/03">January
26th
<A
href="http://www.ccmep.org/usbombingwatch/2003.htm#1/25/03">January
25th
<A
href="http://www.ccmep.org/usbombingwatch/2003.htm#1/19/03">January
19th
<A
href="http://www.ccmep.org/usbombingwatch/2003.htm#1/17/03">January
17th
<A
href="http://www.ccmep.org/usbombingwatch/2003.htm#1/13/03">January
13th
<A
href="http://www.ccmep.org/usbombingwatch/2003.htm#1/10/03">January
10th
<A
href="http://www.ccmep.org/usbombingwatch/2003.htm#1/8/03">January
8th
<A
href="http://www.ccmep.org/usbombingwatch/2003.htm#1/7/03">January
7th
<A
href="http://www.ccmep.org/usbombingwatch/2003.htm#1/4/03">January
4th
<A
href="http://www.ccmep.org/usbombingwatch/2003.htm#1/3/03">January 3rd
?
<A
href="http://www.ccmep.org/usbombingwatch/2003.htm#1/2/03"><FONT face=Arial
size=2>January 2nd
<A
href="http://www.ccmep.org/usbombingwatch/2003.htm#1/1/03">January
1st
<FONT
face="Times New Roman">
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Yours
sincerely
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Mark Priestley
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