Consider just this snippet, from Reuters' Iraq Factbox:
DIWANIYA - Seven policemen were killed when their vehicle was hit by a powerful roadside bomb east of Diwaniya, 180 km (110 miles) south of Baghdad, police said.
Now, imagine that had happened in, say, Duluth. It'd be breaking news on every network. But it didn't, so it's not. It's something that happened very far away to people you'll never know. It's just that wallpaper. It doesn't mean anything.
But it's our fault. There were no roadside bombs in Iraq before we went there. This is a direct result of our actions. Pro-war types will argue that people die in war and that, because of this fact, we can't be responsible for every death. But that argument is deeply flawed and dishonest. When you take a course of action in which you know -- without any doubt at all -- that people will die, you can't later say that you aren't responsible for those deaths. Yet that's what we're told. That the violence is a reaction to our actions is supposed to be irrelevant. We are innocent.
We're always being told that things are getting better, but it's never as good as pre-war Iraq. Think about that. Saddam Hussein ran a safer nation than we can provide Iraqis. If the average Iraqi hated Saddam, what the hell must they think of us?...
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