Iraq: "the news remains essentially the same, day in and day out" - pls rd

[UpInArms]

http://www.bangornews.com/news/templates/?a=131817

excerpt:

This is not a political commentary, only a record of what I've seen and heard for myself.



Fifty-six people died in Baghdad today. Not from natural causes. Not from car accidents. Not from heart attacks, old age or natural disaster. No, their lives were snatched from them in seven or eight gratuitous bombings, ostensibly in the name of a deity and an accompanying pious crusade.

I heard all the explosions and saw two of them - at least the dust and the roiling black smoke of the aftermath. I lost an accurate count after the city shuddered for the sixth time. I was not close to the scene of any of the incidents, but I was shaken in more ways than one.

Fifty-six people: 21 waiting in line for kerosene; one at a Sunni mosque - a mortar attack; four at a Shiite mosque - a car bomb; and several police officers on patrol. Others I couldn't keep track of in the media. One day's violence simply blends into another. More blood, more photos and footage of funerals. Weeping men, wailing women, dead children.

...much much much more...

still crying

[TheCowsCameHome]

1. The big brave RW compares the deaths to the number who die here

In bathtub falls, drownings, ladder accidents, house fires, etc. in an effort to minimize the Iraq numbers.

No big deal, they say.

[RedEarth]

2. What a wonderful world we have created in Iraq.......