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KUOW
94.9FM, NPR-Seattle, WA-"Weekday" with Steve Sher
(6/6/05)
Despite losing electricity, clean water and
even their homes, many Iraqi citizens supported the US invasion
at the start of the war. They considered their loses necessary
sacrifices to be rid of Saddam Hussein and attain the freedom
they'd been promised by the American government. However,
as the war drags on, tensions are on the rise. Where did the
US invasion begin to go wrong? What effect did Abu Ghraib
prison and the fighting in Fallujah have on the Iraqi people?
What is fueling the insurgency? What are the most dire needs
of the Iraqi people? Is there any way to fix the problems?
WNYC,
93.9FM, NPR- NYC, NY -"The Leonard Lopate Show,"
(5/23/06)
When reporter Aaron Glantz first went to Iraq in 2003, many
of the Iraqis he spoke to supported the American invasion.
One man even said he would name his son after George Bush.
In his new book, How America Lost Iraq, Mr. Glantz describes
the dramatic change he's seen in Iraqi public opinion.
"Democracy
Now!" Pacifica Radio, National Broadcast, (5/24/06)
Images of thousands of dead U.S. soldiers helped to turn the
tide of public opinion against the Vietnam War, but now photo-journalists
are even banned from military funerals at Arlington national
cemetery. A report this weekend in the Los Angeles Times documented
the extremely rare publication of photos of American casualties
in six major newspapers during a sixth month period. Readers
of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Los Angeles Times, New
York Times, St. Louis Post-Dispatch and Washington Post never
saw a single picture of a dead serviceman or servicewoman
in their morning papers. We are joined by Pacifica Radio reporter
Aaron Glantz. He spent months covering the occupation of Iraq
and is author of the new book "How America Lost Iraq."
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