After reading articles from both of the links below, I gained insight into two very different perspectives on the war with Iraq. War Math uses the number of soldiers killed in the war, 4,000, to calculate the number of deaths that each of George Bush’s “lies” has cost. The website the article is posted on, Antiwar.com, makes it very clear that the author is strongly against the war. All of the language used in the article is persuasive and effectively convinces the audience that the war was a costly mistake. It also gain’s readers’ sympathy for Iraqi civilians by explaining the poor living conditions that they are now subject to.
The second article is also about the causalities from the Iraq war. However, this one has quite a different tone. It reports that “three suspected militants were killed in an airstrike” as though it is just another mundane piece of information. It plays down the number of lives that were lost. For example, it says that when a coalition returned fire “a number” of soldiers were killed. This makes it seem as though it was an insignificant amount of people and that the war is going well.
While both articles are about the exact same war, each clearly has a different regard for it. The first article used mostly exact statistics to make their point, but the second one only provided general figures. The first article was from an anti-war blogging website, yet the second one was from a website promoting global security. Not only were the views different between the two articles, but they were blatantly bias to their sides throughout their reports.
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/04/01/8013/
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/library/news/2008/04/mil-080403-voa02.htm
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