Reply #9: I have noticed... [View All]

...a shift in the press coverage in the last six weeks. Almost as if with their newfound cojones, the more critical pieces they write now have back stories thaty seem to have been reported on in the past---except these are things they willingly ignored---until now.

I hold the press accountable for much of this, but...they have moved me nearly to tears on occasion lately. The Times has had a couple of articles in the last ten days about a a female soldier who loats her left hand in a mortar attack. the Times reporter was there when it happened and reported on it somewhat generically as the "cost of war". But he followed it up a few days later when she was in the hospital and got some candid remarks from her about her jaundiced view (and the view of many co-horts) about the war and the reasons for it in the first place. There was a shot of her in her hospital bed smiling, but with a scarred face and of course a wrapped stump where her left hand was (of course she was a former college basketball player and was...f*ck the luck, a lefty!). She described calling her folks to tell them she was hurt and damned if i didn't welll up riding the subway reading it. It broke my heart.

Hate isn't a word I toss around lightly. But what this blithering dolt has done to our soldiers n sending them off to fight an ego/oil/religion-driven war takes me to where hate lives and strands me there.

We should be surprised that the Iraqi people are pissed? Pissed enough to do whatever it takes to kill us even if it's one at a time? Of course they are...and the object of my hatred/venom/EXTREME dislike sent our people there. A bastard to the 43rd power.