With so many people yelling back and forth and pointing fingers, how can I form my own opinion about what happened in Iraq? How can I learn the truth?
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Nohoch Mac
ANSWERS: 8
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Read, read, read. And read reports from many different viewpoints.
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FSTV...start there.
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You can form your own opinion by learning everything you can and taking most of it with a grain of salt. Unfortunately, with most of these issues, you probably won't learn the truth for many years, if ever - unless you have a ton of money, and connections and free time. that's how the public can be so easily manipulated. Most of us simply don't have the resources to conduct that kind of research on our own.
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Read and listen to all sides of the arguments and then take the common issues and focus on them. Anything way out there on any side should be disregarded. What's left will be very close to the real issues.
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Check some of the online newsmedia FROM OTHER NATIONS. We get "American news" in the US - and some pretty lopsided American news, at that. It's amazing how different some issues look from outside US borders. There are Hong Kong newspapers in English, Aussie ones, Brit ones, and so on. There's an Asian Wall Street Journal. Take a look!
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I think as a civilian it's really hard to get a good picture of what's going on. In order to figure out what I thought, I started writing letters to troops in Iraq and I've learned a lof from them. I figured that they probably have a limited view of things, being right in the middle, so I also read a lot of news online. I think it's good to get the picture from as many angles as you can.
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You need to make sure that you get your news from different sources. And make sure they are not the same sources dressed up different ways. Try and get hold of some foreign news. If you can, watch Al Jazeera English. Not to say that they are necessarily right, but they give a different opinion. Watch the BBC as well as US sources.
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Stop listening to the people pointing fingers.
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