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Gloating and biased journalism. .(Iraqi war and U.S. occupation)(Editorial)

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GLOATING SEEMS to have become one of the most used words in discussion of the Iraqi war. From the beginning ABC commentators and others who were against the war have been accused, with some justification, of gloating over every apparent reverse and mistake of the coalition forces, every accidental civilian death, and every loss of personnel on the part of the "aggressors". After the rapid and successful drive on and entry into Baghdad, those who rejoiced in the speed and the relatively low civilian casualties of the operation were in their turn accused of gloating. In some cases there was some justice in this also.

Gloating returned on the anti-war side with the ...

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