{"article":{"id":12772,"heading":"A LETTER TO AN AMERICAN FRIEND","author":"NOT-IN-MY-NAME","created":"2001-11-09 20:10:11","modified":"2015-12-18 10:15:28","last_modified":"Fri, 18 Dec 2015 17:15:28","article":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><p>I sent a photograph to an american friend ... It's a man and his grand-child crying because of the kidnapping of his wife by slave dealers in the Iranian border... I thought my american friend would understand.. My friend works with minority groups in the west-coast of the US, my friend is a psychologist deeply moved by people's pains... This is his reply...All I could think of, was that his opinion had been shaped, distorted, deformed, conformed by the American Media. How many people in the US share his thoughts, I wonder.  <br>  <br> ______________________________________________________________________ <br>  <br> ..please don't send me pictures like that, have u seen any of people  <br>  <br> crying at the world trade center? i totally support the us effort to end  <br>  <br> terrorism. whatever casualties are happening are the fault of the taliban  <br>  <br> for not handing bin ladin over. the entire world is involved in this.  <br>  <br> it is unfortunate and horrific that innocent people are being killed, but  <br>  <br> this is a really big thing, and the freedom of the world depends on it.  <br>  <br> whether others like it or not, the u.s. takes a role in monitoring freedom  <br>  <br> the world over, and they may exploit others in order to ensure freedom,  <br>  <br> nothing and no regime is perfect, but this is the best one in the world, and  <br>  <br> i have traveled extensively and know this to be true. whatever is behind  <br>  <br> this war, oil, money whatever, nothing changes the fact that over 5000 people  <br>  <br> were killed by a psychotic islamic fundamentalist. this is not ok, and i  <br>  <br> really think we must defend against this sort of thing.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","contact":"","link":"","address":"","phone":"","parent_id":0,"mime_type":"text\/plain","summary":"I sent a photo to a friend in San Francisco -it's a man and his grand-child crying because of the kidnapping of his wife by slave dealers in the Iranian border.Here is his reply... \r\n...an example of Manufactured Consent?","numcomment":0,"fileurl":"\/uploads\/","filesize":null,"article_url":"\/news\/2001\/11\/12772.php"},"attachments":[],"comments":[]}