Defending the Truth

I think the powerful message is the amount of US troops who have been killed due to this War, but the weak message is that this war is for Hailiburtan, yada yada yada.

How is the message that Haliburton/KBR and others are profiteering off of this war at the expense of the blood and lives of countless Iraqis and Americans weak? To me that's so sinister and exploitative, and it underlines this administration's policy of an unprecedented amount of outsourcing many of the military's original jobs which has been highly detrimental to the strength and effectiveness of our armed forces, and is an instrumental part in us loosing this war.

Or have you just been trained to cover your ears and yell every time you hear the word "Halliburton" pronounced?

These kind of messages really make my blood boil. There's an impressive list of countries there.

And Iraq is not mentioned ONCE. Not once. I often hear about all the death this war is causing - and people are talking about Americans. NOT Iraqi civilians.

Iraq Body Count

Do their deaths not count?

They count to anyone with a soul.

I start most days by checking the headlines on Yahoo. Today, we have this headline: "Twin bombings in northern Iraq kill 80."

Twin bombings in northern Iraq kill 80 - Yahoo! News

This happens most every day there. Does anyone recall just weekend before last, when bombings killed over 250 Iraqis? No? That's because this happens EVERY DAY. There is no time to mourn those people. A whole new group will be killed the next day, demanding our attention.

And it's to the point now where when a single Iraqi is killed, it doesn't make headlines. Only mass killings do.

It isn't until paragraph FIFTEEN of that news story that we learn:

"On Sunday, 22 bullet-riddled bodies were found dumped in various locations of Baghdad, apparently the latest victims of sectarian violence, police said."

22 Iraqis hunted down and savagely killed by death squads. In one day, a typical day. And that barely merits a mention.

And we have to wait until September to get the benchmark report from Iraq. How many more will die before then? And will the report even matter?

This whole situation makes me so sick.