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In WAR MADE EASY Norman Solomon demolishes the myth of an independent American press zealously guarding sacred values of free expression. Although strictly focusing on the shameless history of media cheerleading for the principal post World War II American wars, invasions, and interventions, he calls into question the entire concept of the press as some kind of institutional counterforce to government and corporate power.
Many of the examples compiled in this impeccably documented historical review will be familiar to readers who follow the news on the Internet. But such examples achieve fresh impact because of the way Solomon has organized and analyzed them. Each chapter is devoted to a single war hawk argument ("America Is a Fair and Noble Superpower," "Opposing the War Means Siding with the Enemy," "Our Soldiers Are Heroes, Theirs Are Inhuman"), illustrated with historical examples from conflicts in the Dominican Republic, E1 Salvador, Vietnam, Grenada, Panama, Kosovo, both Iraq wars, and others in which the media were almost universally enthusiastic accomplices.
The book should really be subtitled "War reporting doesn’t just suck, it kills. "it makes you feel like demanding a special war crimes tribunal for corporate media executives and owners who joined the roll-up to" shock and awe" as non-uniformed psywar ops. To be sure, this would raise the issue of whether or not following orders might suffice for the defense of obedient slaves such as Mary McGrory and Richard Cohen, who performed above and beyond the call of duty. "He persuaded me, " ncGrory gushed(热情洋溢地表达) the morning after Colin Powell addressed a plenary session of the United Nations on February 5, 2003, declaring that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction. " The cumulative effect was stunning. "In the same Washington Post edition, Cohen wrote.
The evidence he presented to the United Nations—some of it circumstantial, some of it absolutely bone-chilling in its detail—had to prove to anyone that Iraq. not only hasn’t accounted for its weapons of mass destruction but without a doubt still retains them. Only a fool—or possibly a Frenchman—could conclude otherwise.
Solomon demonstrates how this kind of peppy prewar warm up degenerates into drooling and heavy breathing once the killing begins. As if observing a heavy metal computer game, the pornographers of death concentrate on the exquisite craftsmanship and visual design of the murder machines and the magnificence of the fiery explosions they produce.

What can be inferred about McGrory and Richard Cohen

A．Both were shocked by the news that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction.

B．Both publicly supported the US accusation of Iraq.

C．Both committed a special war crime.

D．Both defended the interests of those who were submissiv

读等高线地形图，回答下列问题。

（1）填出图中字母代表的地形名称。

A、________；B、________；C、________；D、________。

（2）甲地海拔为________，乙地海拔为________，两地的相对高度为________。

（3）甲地在丙村的________方向，乙地在丙村的_________方向。

（4）若甲、乙两地的实际直线距离为40km，从图上量得两地的图上距离为4cm，通过计算得出该图的比例尺是________。

下列各项中，属于植物器官的是[ ]

A．一棵小草                  

B．一棵杏树        

C．一粒红豆                  

D．一棵青菜

公安机关应对广大社会成员进行治安形势和违法犯罪发展趋势的教育，提高其( )

A．公民基本道德意识
B．社会公德意识和法治意识
C．社会主义精神文明素质
D．治安防范意识

A机电安装公司承包某市一新建32层写字楼的消防系统安装工程。工程项目包括灭火系统、火灾自动报警系统以及送风、排烟系统的安装。设计技术文件规定，自动喷水灭火系统的管子公称直径为90mm，室内消火栓给水管道管径为110mm，火灾自动报警系统的工作接地线采用电缆金属管。设备系统安装完毕进行单机通电检查，正常后进行系统调试,并填写调试报告。

工程自动喷水灭火系统的管子应用( )连接。

A．螺纹

B．法兰

C．焊接

D．卡箍