[Media-watch] Questions for the Cultural Ruling Media Elite& Meeting in stirling

[Iain Campbell]

Hope to see all members of media-watch who live in the Stirling area at 
tonight meeting to discuss the  war in Iraq at which Dennis Canavan msp and 
Susan Karim Iraq exile will be speaking at the Cowan centre 7.30 start.  
Some of the questions needing answered are:

As the situation in Iraq slowly but surely evolves, several critical 
questions
should be asked: Why is the United States in such need of foreign military
assistance? Is the need and its subsequent publicity designed for domestic
political consumption? Is it a goodwill gesture towards the international
community, affording many originally skeptical countries the chance to now
become involved? Or is there a legitimate need to reinforce U.S. forces now
dealing with a longer than expected deployment and low troop morale? Is 
massive
monetary expenditure what Iraq needs to become peaceful, stable, or 
democratic?
At what point does the amount of money invested become moot when the 
fundamental
problems aren't ones of a financial nature but ones of cultural and 
religious
divides, historical legacies, and social discontent?

Also, Has anybody noticed that completely unsurprisingly the media are 
protraying all the protesters as at best eccentrics. Why are articulate and 
well known people like George Galloway or Ken Livingston not getting 
interviewed on mainstream news every night at moment when the tv news is 
obsesses with the preparations for the London demo instead of just talking 
about the protesters in a mysterious way?

Peace

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