Iraq death toll tops 1 million
Guest post from my greenest leftist friend, who doesn’t have his own blog and wants only to be known as Jason
Somehow the Australian MSM managed to miss a story last week that Iraq’s death toll now tops 1 million.
Ah well, good thing we got rid of that murderous Saddam Hussein, eh?
This article sums it up pretty well:
If we’re not enraged, let’s ask ourselves why. Is it because the slaughter of Iraqi’s is happening thousands of miles away? Is it because they are not like us in appearance or religion? Would we, say, feel the loss of British or Irish people more intensely? We Americans are upset about the loss of lives of American soldiers. When we’re not shopping at the mall or watching Sunday football, we’re concerned about this. But the death of tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of Iraqi’s? We don’t feel that. We don’t imagine what it looks like. Our politicians don’t convey the terrible weight of what we’ve done to that country. Perhaps there is something to be angry about. Very angry.
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