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By: Kati Michelotti
Iraq’s side of story
 Iraq’s side of the story is a tad different, after 9/11 everyone was afraid or scared
that all people that had dark skin or wore turbans were bad. Iraq did not
participate in 9/11 but were then followed with and attack from us. I think that
the only reason that they fought back was because they were made about being
discriminated against.
This is actually a Sikh,
not an Iraqi.
America’s side of story
 In our minds we all were very heartbroken at the event of 9-11 but that
gave us no right to start a huge war that was misunderstood. It turns
out that Al Qaeda were the ones who attacked us on 9-11. We had
thought that Iraq had all the weapons of mass destruction and that
they were in connection with Al Qaeda. When our media is presenting
the world with what is happening, the tend to always use the ugly side
of Iraq to make us look better as people; otherwise known as a
propaganda. No matter what happened, the tragic event will always be
in our hearts.
Revenge
Newspaper Images
 1. When looking at all the newspaper articles you notice a lot of similarities in them. One
thing I caught was that there is a lot of eye popping colors such as red and yellow
followed by capital letters and exclamation points. The image sizes are usually small if it
was altered or huge if it was real. They also gave these articles lots of space so that they
could do lots of explaining and reasoning making it more prominence or important.
 2. The audience of the newspaper is many people all around the world wanting to know
exactly what is going on. Also we spent lots of time reading Iraqi newspaper and they
spent a lot of time reading ours to see if we had mentioned anything useful or what we
were saying about the other person.
 3. Someone that isn’t being represented in these newspaper articles is the innocent Iraqi
or middle eastern people. We never know what is happening to them in deep detail since
we invaded their homes. This makes the structure to their story important because they
could reveal a little more truth about what is actually happening.
What I believe
 I believe that what happened was we were attacked on 9/11 by al Qaeda and we
thought that they were connected with Iraq. Also, we didn’t think and so we
thought that is was all of the middle east; not a few individuals. Therefore, the
war was started for no reason other than we wanted to take out our anger on
someone, get revenge, and show others not to mess with us. I love American
but we are always picking fights and as discussed, we shoot then aim when it’s
too late. I also believe that Iraq was so mad that we were somewhat
discriminating against their people and wanted to partake in the war with us.
Citation
 Wikipedia.com
 google.books.com
 "After 9/11: NYPD monitored where Muslims ate, shopped, prayed"
"Everyone loses if hatred prevails"
"9/11: Two Perspectives"
 http://www.everyculture.com/Ge-It/Iraq.html
 http://www.moviesonline.ca/2010/11/iraq-war-documentary/
 http://usliberals.about.com/od/homelandsecurit1/a/IraqNumbers.htm
 http://thinkprogress.org/report/iraq-timeline/
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