Lives are useless?

Note: All links will open in a new window so you can follow along without losing your place here. Aren't I nice?

I was reading a blog earlier this morning and got a lot of mixed emotions. Not on my part, but the bloggers part. I honestly wasn't sure where the person was coming from, i.e. "what side" (a stupid conundrum -I know) this person was claiming to be on. But it got me googling a lot of different things I've been wondering about for sometime, but just never found the time, or rather made the time to research more into the topic.

I'm going to try and organize my thoughts a little better than the hysterical path of looping up/through/right/in/left/out/forward/around the Internet that it took me to find all of this, so hold on tight, you might not want to read this, but you need to. At least, I hope you read this even if you don't read any other blog by me.

The blogger NOFP had a link to a very funny site Bush conspiracy theory but also the RightWingNews:Dec. 17, 2004 entry that I didn't find humorous at all. (I'm neither D 0r R, more flexible politically)

Later, I found Fulwiler's blog. Note the part where Fulwiler is answering her aunt (in italics). This reminded me of this rightwing blog/news thing. Look who's calling the kettle black now.

Somewhere, I think it was a link in a news article about soldiers killed in Iraq, (CNN has an article on this. Or you can find it in every news paper in the world) got me wondering about Iraqi civilian lives. This on the other hand was no easy task. It seems that there is only one place "keeping up" with IBC, they call it. (A little acronym for death.)

WOW! Look at that number compared to the 1200 total soldiers. I think a fella' on Blogs for Bush said it best, "those soldiers are doing a good job at what they've been trained to do"

But back to IBC being the only place where you can get a remotely accurate "guesstimation" on civilian deaths, I think that General Tommy Franks said it best,

March 18, 2002 @ Bagram Air Base:

"I don't believe you have heard me or anyone else in our leadership talk about the presence of 1,000 bodies out there, or in fact how many have been recovered, you know we don't do body counts."

(And like a stubborn janitor, I image he doesn't do windows either.)

But the part I really want you to see is that this has practical been wiped out of the media. Check my proof for yourself:

A google search for "we don't do body counts" March 18, 2002 at Bagram Air Base Gen. Tommy Franks. You notice there are no Mainstream Media branches turning up in that. (CBS, NBC, and so on)

Now... let's omit a few little key words like, oh say: "we don't do body counts". search. See the difference? scratch, scratch scratch -This is me scratching my head confused. Isn't the media suppose to be non-bias? I ask myself. Hum?

But let's ask the real trivial question here. Is this lose of civilian life in complete defiance of the Geneva Convention and Hague Regulations? Are we not suppose to by humanitarian law, try to prevent civilian deaths. 17,000 doesn't seem like we're trying to hard. Here's the real kicker -we aren't trying at all, just trying to hide it. This article , a UK news paper shows (scroll down to where you see Secret deaths shame Blair and read the first paragraph.) the US nor the British are either.

Cluster bombs might interest you too.

This is Tom Brokaw Zymosius signing off...

TTFN
Zymosius