I would say it’s an improvement over the television coverage during the Gulf War, in that at least we are able to see images from inside Iraq, but CNN, Fox and MSNBC are clearly being heavily censored in terms of what they can film, and, without getting into a huge philosophical rant right now, are arguably acting as part of the U.S. government propaganda machine.

Actually, my biggest criticism of the American networks right now has to do with the fact that they aren’t reporting anything besides the war. The Bush administration is also active at the moment on domestic fronts, and the networks are playing into the hands of the administration by not even reporting what they’re up to (budget votes, etc.).

Luckily, at least here in New York, we don’t have to watch CNN anymore unless we’re feeling masochistic. I have been watching the coverage mainly on TV5, which comes from France. They have alternated between their own news program, Le Journal, as well as broadcasts from TV2 (also French), as well as Swiss and Québecois news.

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I mean, really, come on….they’re governed by an asshole. (Yes, I’m only calling Saddam an asshole…the Hitler references are really a bit much.)

As if that wasn’t enough, they’ve lived under awful economic conditions partly caused by horrible sanctions from the West that the Clinton *and* Bush administrations (1 and 2) stubbornly refused to ease. (I blame Clinton more for this, actually; after all he was in office for EIGHT YEARS, during which time somewhere between 500,000 and a million Iraqis died.) They wouldn’t even allow things like syringes and antibiotics to be imported into Iraq, claiming they could be utilized in a biological weapons program.

And now, the Iraqis are once again just pawns in a game.

And who’s playing the game? Well, Saddam, the United States, the United Kingdom, Spain, Germany, France, China and Russia.

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