by Angelique Yvonne

Created on: March 21, 2010   Last Updated: March 22, 2010

My husband is a soldier and the media version of what is going on is only about 10% truth and the rest lies. Part of it is the fact that the government doesn't give the media all the facts for security proposes. And the other is that things are being made up to sell stories. Whatever can sell the most papers and can make me the most money. Granted there are honest journalists and media reporters, but just like any situation the bad can over shine the good.

Bush didn't kill the soldier's the enemy did, stating otherwise isn't fully recognizing the complete and whole situation. Things may not have been handled 100% correctly but no matter what, after 9/11 we couldn't sit back and do nothing and no matter what, any choices would have had good and bad right along with it.

After 9/11 most of us agreed to go to war, and to get "revenge" for the live's that were taken from us. Now years later we changed our minds, not from what is happening on the battleground, or how good we are actually doing but from what we hear in the news papers and on TV.

That effects our opinion because we are not there or a witness to any of it to make an accurate judgement for ourselves, which makes things extremely complex.

My mother use to state we shouldn't rebuild Iraq because they didn't rebuild our twin towns, and that goes for Afghanistan. Personally I think that shows how much better we are then Bin Laden or Al'Queda because we realize innocent people got hurt because of the decision of their leaders and we want to make it up to the innocent people that were hurt by this. But not very many people see it that way or understand it.

There are many opinions and many beliefs that would change if all the information was accurate and current. But because of the media version of things impacts all of our decisions so much, it is hard to tell what is true and what isn't anymore. 

Maybe we should care more about the truth then what sells. Or look into it ourselves, or maybe the goverment should be more open with information  going out to the public. But then again we don't know how much damage that would cause if the truth got into the wrong hands.

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