Somewhere this morning a little girl is sadly awakened by her mommy....

[BigBearJohn]

Mommy, can I go to heaven to be with daddy?"

Facts “fixed”?
Isn’t that like manufacturing evidence?
How do you explain that to kids who signed on to fight evildoers and secure their WMDs, only to come home in flag-draped boxes to a nation where, according to a recent Gallup poll, almost 60 percent of its citizens now feel the war was a total mistake? How do you explain it to grieving parents who thought their sons and daughters died in a war where military power had been used only as the absolute last resort — like Bush said it would be?

I believe this paucity of front-page attention is more complex. Possibly some journalists are so burned up with — or burned out by — this historic debacle that they’ve chosen to stay mum and see what unfolds. Perhaps they feel there’s too much fresh residue from the Newsweek and Dan Rather incidents to stick their necks out.

Maybe a pervasive numbness has enveloped many of us. Each day the horrific news from Iraq, as well as the White House PR spin on it, give people more reason to feel sick, worried, mad, misguided and hopeless.

It could also be that some people who have voiced their concerns over this cursed Pandora’s Box and the fact that we have no exit strategy from it — just a new generation of dying soldiers and hemorrhaging pockets — are weary from speaking out and being excoriated. After all, when they do voice their opinions, the “real” patriots of this nation viciously label them cowardly, liberal, un-American, gun-absconding, fetus-killing, commie-wacko traitors who deserve to be deported.

Source of article: http://www.the-signal.com/News/ViewStory.asp?storyID=7284

[ROH]

1. So almost 60% of US citizens feel the war was a mistake, and

almost 60% of Iraqi citizens want the US and its allies to leave immediately (even if it means the security situation will deteriorate).


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Other telling findings of the survey were that an overwhelming majority of Iraqis, 71 percent (and that figure rises to 81 percent if the Kurdish areas in the north are excluded), now see the US-led coalition as an occupying force and not as liberators. USA Today reports that a solid majority, almost 60 percent, want the US and its allies to leave immediately, even if it means the security situation will deteriorate.
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http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/0429/dailyUpdate.html

[Mnemosyne]

2. .

:cry: :kick:

[BigBearJohn]

3. I just cant shake the image of a child being told their father has died

mainly because it happened to me when I was young.

[LightningFlash]

4. And on top of that a Civil War.....

It's almost reaching Nixon level scandal.

[anarchy1999]

5. Very Harsh, babe, but thank you. N/T!

Damn!

on edit:

How many more hearts can be broken? I'm not up for it, are you?

[FreedomAngel82]

6. It is heartbreaking

:( I never thought I could ever hate someone as much as I do George Bush. :mad: :cry:

[anarchy1999]

7. Oh sure we can, let's find some humor. We can hate, but hate is not

healthy. Let go of the hate, the resentment, etc.

I've never been so politically angry in all my life. The last time I was this moved was to vote for Perot. Remember he warned us all with his silly pie charts about Nafta and the sucking sound of jobs going south.

oh well, here we are. now what? Hate is not in the picture, we can do better!

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