Who is right and who is wrong, the strories dont seem to fit, match or add. If two super powers cant seem to decide who claims the highest number of casualities what other discrepencies are there to this so called liberation war of dying women and children!

As the war on Iraq was declared on Thursday 4 am, people in the Middle East are living in anticipation, anxiety, awe and disbelief, glued to their television trying to follow the events and updates of the next attack, bombardement, deployment, etc.. Public opinion is too confused to say divided. As they flip from English to French to Arabic, the stories dont seem to match and the majority are completly absorbed in analysing who is saying what trying or arguing among one another cynically of what the outcome of all of it will look like.

For the first time, witinssed a move, as people in Yemen, Cairo, Bahrain, Dubai and Qatar, Lebanon, etc.. took to the streets. Some of which turned violent as security and police clashed with youth and university students using water hoses and tear gas to divide the demonstrators.

What is more faciniating than the demonstrations, which is a novelty in this part of the world, is the discrepency in news delivered when comparing the stories on CNN, BBC versus those on arab stations. While American and British broadcasting stations speak of troops seizing two strategically important airfields in western Iraq and strategic oil fields in southern Iraq, conquering a an island of Alfana and and port of Um Kaser, three day journey to Baghdad,etc.. the Arab tv stations such as Aljazira, Egyptian TV, Syrian TV, LBC and Abu Dabi, Al Manar, NBN and toehrs were suspending the legitimacy of such claims with broadcasters in these specified cities. Iraqi and Arab military experts doubt the possibility as the troups in 36 hours were able to advance only 600 kilometrers by land and they have not even reached some of the heavy populated and strong conflict zones where it is expected that the Iraqi will set traps.

As for the oil wells, the military plane crash and other, it is not quite clear what's right and what's not as no one seems to know exactly who is repsonsible. As Americans and British fight over claiming the highest death toll, blaming it on mechanics, the death toll in 36 hours and environmental and humanitarian loss far exceeds the estimated numbers. Americans and British speak of days and perhaps a week or week, for many, the battle has not started yet and if the Shii's in southern Iraq, the people in the marches and the majority in Baghdad see this conflict as a imperliastic, zionistic war, what is considered the holly land for many of the Shii population will be the battle of Hassan and Hussein as in the days of Ashoura and it has only been 10 days since those 40 days of grievance, observance and sacrifice.

A message to those following the news,make sure you plug to the news in Arabic via sattlight view as many broadcast in English and French, trying to check the maps and see what key cities they are speakinng off, make sure you dont believe 1/4 of the publicty and over extimated coverage, the truth comes, out, I hope the families of those soldiers do not believe they are fighting anyone's democracy and certainly not the popluation of this region.