Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/11/17
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Tim Atherton said the following on 11/17/2003 10:49 PM: > Just by listening to a daily litany from Central Command of "two more US > soldiers were killed north of Baghdad" etc, do the American people get an > honest sense of these numbers? Actually, yes. I hear the reports daily in Chicago. I am sickened by them. What makes you think the "American people" do not get an honest sense? One photograph more or less of a coffin will make no difference. > These young men and women have died and been wounded on behalf of those who > sent them there. Surely the American (and British) people should both honour > them and be fully aware of the cost being paid. Currently, it is in effect, > being hidden. How are they hidden? The news that I see/hear in Chicago (mostly radio) talks about them incessantly. In fact, being completely and obnoxiously rational, they over emphasize these deaths relative to the carnage on the roads that results from aggressive drivers asserting their rights to do anything as long as they are sober, not to mention the drunks who do not give a s---, not to mention the deaths caused by guns that should be illegal. - -- Clive http://clive.moss.net - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html