This is News

I was getting ready for work watching my favorite Infomercial (GMA) when I saw the news scrolling by. Normally, at this half hour local news by a peppy host is what plays but because this is Korea we just get headlines strolling by. They were the normal sort (earthquake, scandal, sexual scandal, Business scandal, new panda....) what you would expect, but buried last on the list was this. 200 Dead in Iraq in the Last Four Days . This completely surprised me. How can this be the least interesting bit of news?

I went to the CBS website to see if I could find this headline and came up with a more devastating bit of news:

Iraqi deaths are running at a high rate. According to an Associated Press count, 708 Iraqis have been reported killed in war-related violence this month, or just more than 44 per day, compared to a daily average of more than 27 since the AP began tracking deaths in April 2005.

Imagine if 200 people died in four days in California because of violence this would definitely be first in the news. 2 deaths in Rome from a subway crash listed as more important than the 200 Iraqis deaths. The media could cover this war a little more closely but I think the real people guilty of ambivalence are the general public both old and young.

We the people need to follow this and need to protest. This brought an end to the Vietnam war and a movement should take place to end this one. But it won't. Students today are rich, pampered and have a lot more to do than care about a war so far away and removed from their circle of friends.

Sadam was a horrible man but what the "Coalition" forces have made (civil war) is just going to provide more anger and hatred towards the West. This was the wrong war and the wrong time. I am so glad Canadian forces never joined in here and I hope they continue to fight in Afghanistan. This is where the war on terrorism needs to be fought. (Talk about cut and run America). I'm proud of what we are doing there and recognize the danger troops face there but it's where the real war needs to be fought.