Friday, March 16, 2007
Sadam Hussein
Sadam Hussein was a hero in my opinion. No matter what the media said about him, he will stay a hero. Because he didn’t just surrender for the enemy. He fought, and stood up right there. No one of us can talk about the reasons of his defeat. The media effect on his image was unbelievable. For a very long time the media was concerned about Sadam and what do people think about him. It influenced people view of his personality in two ways. People who didn’t know much about Sadam agreed that he is an evil. They thought like this because the media and the Americans were trying to make him look like that. But the media and Americans didn’t show and tell people about things he did for his country and Arabs. In the other hand, people who know about Sadam and his achievements didn’t care about what the media said. They knew who Sadam is, and they were against the media sayings about him. If he wasn’t a hero, Americans wouldn’t pay that much attention to him. In fact, people believe are different but if some one changed his/her believe because of what said in the media. Then this person didn’t believe anything before. Of course all the news channels showed Sadam as “the bad person” because as I said they didn’t show anything good abut him, while there were a lot of good things he did. If the news channels reports were really honest and clean, people would have seen the truth and no one would’ve been against Sadam.
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Husam,
You ention that the media portrayed Saddam as a tyrant because it is the wish of the American goverment, well do you thjink that this image of Saddam really benefited the Americans. In other words did the media shape this negative image of Saddam but a positive image of the American troops. Were the Americans welcomed as heros because of the image the media created of Saddam? I dont believe so, Saddam was portrayed as a tyrant because he was one, whether or not we agree with thte American invasion of Iraq. All the videos shown on Al- Jazeera of Saddam ordering all his allies to be killed once he got to power were not fabricated! They were true videos.
You also state that if the media reports were honest people would have seen the true hero in Saddam, and no one would have been against him. But et me remind you that most people, especially of the older generations, do not have a negative image about Saddam because of the way he has been shown recently, its because they saw the first Gulf War with their own eyes on TV, they lived the fears of that period, they met friends that told them about how tyhey were tortured in Iraq and how their relatives disappeared. They remember Saddam's power and negative influence on dicisions made in the Arab League in the late 1970s. And what they remember most, is that Saddam wsa the sole reason for the American forces intervention in the region which started by establishing bases after the first Gulf war, and then the invasion of Iraq in 2003. Thats why people hate Saddam, not only because of the dishonest media!
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