Different perspectives in Iraqi War

       As I already mentioned in the first reflection on "Iranians and Media Coverage of the War in Iraq", I could not fully understand about the Iraqi war. I suppose that the authors thought that the audiences would have some essential knowledges about the war.
      On the first essay, "The Self-Absorbed Bully", I did not think of the "Bully" would be the metaphor for the United States. The metaphor amazed me in some way since it was fresh to me.  The author well expressed the article by giving us the main issues why the war happened: Oil problem, the United Nations, The Empire Strikes, and  George W.Bush.  I strongly agree that the  oil was the main trigger to the conflict in iraq. If Iraq did not have any oil, then 'The Self-Absorbed Bully', United States, would not forced to reserve the oil. Also, on the third example where he mentioned about George W. Bush, as " The Cowboy President", I was amazed that the different perspectives would make the person totally different. Throughout this article, I certainly see that Brazil is against the United States unlike the next article in China's perspective.
      " The Chinese Watching the Iraqi War", as I mentioned on the last paragraph, takes a neutral stance. I was wondering how they decided to stay in neutral between Iraq and the United States? Similar to the "Iranians and Media Coverage",  how can the news and all medias lie to the citizens and report the biased opinions? In nowadays, medias take the enormous role to our lives. It is take for granted that we believe what we see in the television; I also could not believe that 'Chinese did not have the privilege of watching a major war on television because of the government's control over the incoming information.' The author analyzed the article by the China media situation.
     Both articles are well written but they do have different tones. In my case, I could understand "The Self-Absorbed Bully" more because of the layout and word choices. In "The Chinese Watching the Iraqi War", I saw the few words that mislead me for a second.