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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: epicure who wrote (90855)	12/9/2004 12:49:24 AM
From: Grainne	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

A passage below from the article you posted (which I bet the pro-war lobby at Feelies didn't actually read). I think this is all so true--the war itself IS the American war crime. I think most Americans are not getting the news, though, and that's why they are not reacting properly. They are getting a tiny bit filtered through extremely bad American cable station reports that do not tell the story at all. No body bags, no bloodied soldiers, no Iraqi children blown apart, no screaming sobbing mothers, nothing like the coverage that finally turned the public against Vietnam. I think this lack of reality in our news is a major problem, one that has not been discussed nearly enough. "But it takes a disciplined imagination to acknowledge that the less personal savageries of bombs, missiles, artillery, and heavy weapons are, to those blown to smithereens, also barbaric. The main horror of what the "coalition" is doing is not a matter of the occasional soldier who, in the heat of battle, commits a war crime, but the steady destruction rained on cities, villages, the Iraqi people. This violence is wreaked calmly, from a distance, within the rules of engagement. The war itself is the American war crime. But that is lost in the "normalcy" of the news."