Media Coverage of Iraq Casulaties

[cactoblasta]

You know I was joking right?

[Akrid]

:lol: Oh my god! I thought I was out of line. Your all crazy.

Well People are always going to want to see dead bodies and people getting killed, and the people making the sacrifices somtimes want to be reconized, while I guess others don't. I think the dead should be honored, on both sides. As long as the deaths are presented tastefully, I don't see a problem.

[DiseasedPunk]

Nah, the real simple method would've been to simply nuke them into a glass crater. No risk for us, and any illegal weapons they might have had are safely gone. And as an extra bonus, who's going to even think about attacking us when they know the price will be a few million of their innocent civilians?

priceless man lol :P

 

Ok quite honestly they were living as slaves before america arived. That doesn't make their situation now a whole lot better but with Saddam out of power its not like they have to worry about being randomly targeted to be tortured or killed for the pleasure of a dictator and his sons. Perhaps its not right that America stepped in and put a stop to it. Im sure as soon as america is gone they'll go back to killing one another and what not and none of it will have meant anything anyways. Nature has a way of taking care of people like that :P Perhaps they'll end their own race one day. The real thing that matters to me and most people though are those freakin extremists blowing everyone up and sawing peoples heads off on film with them screaming the whole tiime. I'm sure if people just left them alone they're numbers would grow and eventually start moving into cities to further their missions of killing. I't might start with small things like random people found dead in european cities and escalate to larger things like entire cities going up in smoke with stolen nuclear arms. Perhaps thats a bit extreme but whatever, its 1am and im tired and rambling.

[Albareth]

Actually, it is rather the extreme opposite. The more you intervene the more you stir up reasons for a semi-"jihad" taking place, christian involvement of "the West" into the muslim world is about the worst course of action you could do. Did you know that it is now believed that the Iraq war has helped blow new life into Al-Qaeda? They were believed to be almost completely rooted but the surge of even more extreme anti-americanism and hatred for the West that has followed the course of this war has given new life to what would have been much easier to control. This is information even your own goverment admits.

 

Furthermore - what people don't seem to realize we HAVE to let this take its course, history proves that the Middle East simply has to go through the same thing as Europe has in the middle ages. It's normal development - foreign influence interfering does nothing to aid the situation.

 

Nature has a way of taking care of people like that :P Perhaps they'll end their own race one day.

 

That kind of talk is completely inane - the same proccess goes for them as has gone for Europe and its history of constant battling and feuding. I think it's not going very far at all in fact to say Middle East is doing a whole lot better than Europe dealt with these social developments.

 

I have a friend who has a doctorate in history who wrote a remarkable paper on this... I'm going to see if I can't dig it up somewhere.

[UberBender]

I think that caskets returning to Dover Air Force Base should be shown, though in a very cerimonial and respective manner. We can respect the dead and still show the reality of how many American soldiers have been killed in this war.

I think this is a very insitfull statement. Showing the caskets in a respectfull manner show that we repsect the unpayable debt we owe to them but also lets the public know just how many have made the ultimate sarifice.

[Breton Thief Oriana]

Heres why they dont show the caskets, youd see people and they dont want you to see people, only numbers. Numbers dont have a familly or a life, but people do, and if we got emotional over people then we would want to pull out, and GW doesnt want us to pull out until everyone is dead (on OUR side as well...)

[tyjet3]

I agree with the breton...

 

#'s are different then faces. I personally don't want to see dead faces of people. That is a big problem with our society. The media shows too much information. Sometimes it is sickning.

[Eltiraaz]

If you dont want to see it. Then honestly dont turn on your television. But the American populace has a right to know. You're the ones who wanted to go to war in the first place, but now you cant accept the fact that some of you have died? Sorry but you cant have your cake and eat it too.

 

Unless the family of a victim would personally intervene and deny it. It should be allowed.

 

Ignoring the facts (dead americans) isnt going to make the problem go away, when you go to war with a country, you will get dead troops. I dont see why we're so shocked at this fact.

[tyjet3]

If I remember correctly, I never signed a paper stated "Go To War"... Just because I'm American does mean I agree with everything America does...

[Eltiraaz]

No. But you live under that flag and frankly you just have to deal with it.

 

The role of a government is to make desicions refelctive of the majority of the citizens of that country. It can't make everyone happy. In the case of the Bush administration, it can't make anyone happy.