Sunday, April 20, 2003
I rewrote my blog last night, after I published it. I was so upset with President Bush and his war, that I got overly sarcastic with the material, in my first posting. I calmed down thought about it, and re-wrote the blog. Here is what I had originally written at the beginning of my blog.
"In his eagerness to share everything American with the newly conquered country of Iraq, Bush has introduced the traditional Easter Egg Hunt to Iraqi children this year.
The eggs were specially made for the Iraqi population. These cheerful little beauties are in the form of brightly colored shaped cans. U.S. forces have been very liberal with their distribution, since the war started. The landscape is covered with them! There shouldn't be any disappointed Iraqi children. this year!
The local nickname in Iraq for these darling things is "Child Killers" , we call them cluster bombs;"
I ended my blog with more anger and sarcasm.
"I guess they don't like Bush's Easter in Iraq. It is a Christian holiday after all and George made these Easter eggs a fundamentalist right wing Christian holiday gift, which just doesn't translate well into their Muslim culture."
My anger was renewed this morning, when the news from Bagdad, stated that 4 marines and an Iraqi girl were seriously hurt when she handed over, something she had found in her neighborhood. It turned out to be a " bomblet" from a cluster bomb. It detonated when she turned it over to the marines.
These un-detonated " bomblets" are all over Iraq. Children and other innocent civilians are being hurt all the time, according to the Iraqi hospital medical staff. The only reason, we heard about it on our media, was that marines were hurt from one. It just shows how "edited" our news media is.
I read a variety of on-line and hard copy, newspapers every day, and the bias is obvious. Some are conservative right, others are decidedly left wing. Some try to be objective and those sources are the ones I favor the most. However, I have found that it pays to read multiple views of the same news article. Sometimes, something close to the truth is somewhere in the middle.
I have calmed down, but, none the less, I am leaving the original lines in, ugly sarcasm and all. Forgive my indulgence in a self surving journalistic rant. It feels good to get it out of my system.
Damn this war.
"In his eagerness to share everything American with the newly conquered country of Iraq, Bush has introduced the traditional Easter Egg Hunt to Iraqi children this year.
The eggs were specially made for the Iraqi population. These cheerful little beauties are in the form of brightly colored shaped cans. U.S. forces have been very liberal with their distribution, since the war started. The landscape is covered with them! There shouldn't be any disappointed Iraqi children. this year!
The local nickname in Iraq for these darling things is "Child Killers" , we call them cluster bombs;"
I ended my blog with more anger and sarcasm.
"I guess they don't like Bush's Easter in Iraq. It is a Christian holiday after all and George made these Easter eggs a fundamentalist right wing Christian holiday gift, which just doesn't translate well into their Muslim culture."
My anger was renewed this morning, when the news from Bagdad, stated that 4 marines and an Iraqi girl were seriously hurt when she handed over, something she had found in her neighborhood. It turned out to be a " bomblet" from a cluster bomb. It detonated when she turned it over to the marines.
These un-detonated " bomblets" are all over Iraq. Children and other innocent civilians are being hurt all the time, according to the Iraqi hospital medical staff. The only reason, we heard about it on our media, was that marines were hurt from one. It just shows how "edited" our news media is.
I read a variety of on-line and hard copy, newspapers every day, and the bias is obvious. Some are conservative right, others are decidedly left wing. Some try to be objective and those sources are the ones I favor the most. However, I have found that it pays to read multiple views of the same news article. Sometimes, something close to the truth is somewhere in the middle.
I have calmed down, but, none the less, I am leaving the original lines in, ugly sarcasm and all. Forgive my indulgence in a self surving journalistic rant. It feels good to get it out of my system.
Damn this war.
# posted by Thomas @ 2:46 AM 
