This is Sick
Anyone want to sign up for this contest?:
How many U.S. troops will be killed in Iraq in the next year?
Submit your best estimate here…
I’ll keep track–our memories are long–and we’ll notify the "winner" one year from today.
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Our collective prognostications might just serve as a public declaration that the Commander-in-Chief cannot make Iraq into a crapshoot with our kids.So submit your estimate here. Put a number to it. On January 10, 2008, how many additional men and women in the U.S. services, do you think, will be dead for this cause?
What is wrong with these people? This is a perfect example of how detached people are from what is going on in Iraq. It sickens me when I saw people in the media almost giddy when the Iraq casualty number hit 3,000 right before New Year’s. Then the constant updates of troop casualties is treated like a basketball score and that is all this war has become; a game to most people. It is that attitude that causes behavior like what you see above.
HT: Greyhawk
And another interesting point, they keep the rolling death toll fresh in everybody's mind every evening on the network news side and every half-hour on the CNN cable news side —
—-but can't seem to find a way to put the death toll in perspective – of either previous war or the violent death rate in some American cities.
I wrote on my blog today about listeing to a good number of middle school students in this "red state" I'm teaching in blurt out about how Bush is a racist and later how he let minorities suffer in New Orleans with Hurrican Katrina —
–on the blog, I related how such ideas are trained by the media via the parents at home — and how it is the flip side of how the media plays up people like Rep. Obama and Speaker of the House Pelosi as great (historical) figures due to pelosi being the first female Speaker and Obama being — well – I haven't figured that one out yet since I haven't heard anybody mention any accomplishments that would rate the media frenzy currently underway —-
with the (negative) flip side being how Bush putting Powell and Rice in two mega key posts in the US government did nothing to earn praise in the media for him, Powell, or Rice….
Thanks to the media, Pelosi is a historic figure to be admired, Bush is a racist, and none of the kids know who Rice is……..
"Crapshoot with our kids"…oh boy the puns that brings up in my mind, but I think I will pass and don't come down too hard on the feild.
Reminds me of something that sounds approprte to mention here. A few months ago I remeber CNN replaying endlessly an insurgent video of sinpers killing US troops, complete with them crumpling to the ground and cheers of joy. CNN gleefuly reminded us that it was "news" and they had to show it. Yet CNN has yet to show Saddam swinging on air.
Al-jazeera won't show the footage either. Both news organizations are afraid of reprisals by Muslim insurgents and mass violent protests by the world's Muslims. Didn't CNN admit recently that it had broadcast favorable coverage of Saddam in order to maintain access in Iraq?
Perspective: on the 9th of Jan 07 there were 9 murders in New Orleans. I'm sure someone will blam Bush and in my not so fair city of Memphis there were also 9 murders my the 9th of Jan.