Keith Olbermann of MSNBC is one of the few honest and sane voices in the corporate media. His essay the other day on the travesty of President Bush's trip to Vietnam is a must read.
But he does the same thing that hundreds of millions of Americans routinely do. In discussing casualties in Vietnam and Iraq, it's only American soldiers' deaths that are are of major importance. He barely mentions, it's almost beneath his notice, the millions of Vietnamese and the hundreds of thousands of Iraqis we slaughtered.
Reader's Digest has a story about an American soldier who rescued a dog from Iraq -- A DOG!
We have murdered more than 600,000 men, women and children in Iraq, twice that number if you count the Iraqis who died from our murderous embargo under President Clinton and the ugly massacre of fleeing troops and civilians in the first war on Iraq.
And Reader's Digest and its readers gets misty eyed about a dog.
Americans need to join the human race.
Posted by Deck at November 21, 2006 08:18 AM