[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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    <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/">
      
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               "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
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face="Times New Roman">
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Yours 
sincerely
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Mark Priestley
 




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