Originally posted by lizbud
Richard,
CNN has your number.Check out this account of the
attack from BBC.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3732655.stm
If they really wanted to make a point--
Where are the pics of the hubby and wife?
The town that was leveled?
The tent where the ceremony was being held?
Terrorists always hide amongst the masses so when they
are challenged by a police action, innocent people get killed.
In the past , journalists would take pics of the whole area.
You know, houses, dead live stock and the aftermath.
I have grown immune to seeing scenes of dead people and the survivors, shaking their fists in the air, cursing.
I have grown immune to the scenes of a funeral procession, bodies draped in a flag hoisted aloft by hooded pall bearers, bystanders busting caps from full-on-auto Kalishnikovs....
I don't know why, but the scene reminds me of a disturbed ant hill-it's chaos.
The reason that we never get a good view of what is happening
in Iraq is that both sides print what they feel fit to show.
I just think that printing pictures of dead bodies doesn't do anything for the story. Pictures of dead bodies are just that.....Dead bodies.
No disrespect to the dead meant....
They are dehumanized in death...we have no concept of who they were, where or how they lived. It's just another dead body.
Had someone printed pics say, showing the wedding tent or the homes destroyed, I'd think different......
You sell more papers and get the masses a little more riled up when you print a picture of a puddle of blood amid the flowers and decorations of a wedding. Put a human spin on it....
I have been to a wedding. But not where bullets and bombs come flying thru the walls. I never have scratched out a
grave site in the dirt to bury any of my relatives......I have never shot off any of my guns to celebrate a marriage......
This is a perfect case for the media to show us exactly what happened.....Instead we get the "bubble-headed bleach blonde with a gleam in her eyes" pitching the tease right before the commercial......
"And we'll be back with more on the attack of the wedding celebration in Iraq......."
They show the same pics and you get a different body count, number of missles and number of houses destroyed....
Since I haven't seen any pics (that any credible new organization would run) of anything but dead bodies I don't have any proof
that there was a wedding going on.....or pics of the destroyed town.........Sorry, I am going to have to postpone my outrage on this story.......
I need just a little more info.
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At times I listen to Rush Limbaugh (lol, it's great comedy).
Yesterday he had a soldier fresh from Iraq on the show..
The soldier made this comment when asked about his fear of being in Iraq. He stated that he was "more afraid watching the news reports on televison" than he was of actually being there.
Sometimes I wonder.
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