2/28 http://csua.org/u/f3r (Wash Post)
Over 1,300 Iraqis dead in last weak. It's okay, because they're
probably mostly Sunnis / Baathist hold-outs.
\_ Over 1,300 Americans dead in the last we*e*k as well. And?
\_ Bad troll. No cookie.
\_ It isn't a troll. It is making a point about the op's post.
People die. It happens. More than 1300 Americans died in
this country just last week. And? What is the point of
the op post? Thus, "And?" If op had a point, they should
have made one. OP is the troll here.
\_ You're either stupid or trolling. That 1300 is because of
violent protests/clashes after the bombing of the mosque
in Samarrah. OP is either sarcastic or stupid, which is
a step above you.
\_ Calm down and read the post again. Note that the
poster does not mention *where* the Americans in question
died. Most of them died of old age in their beds in the
U.S., presumably. -!pp
\_ That's exactly the fucking point, and exactly why that
poster is either a troll or stupid.. God, who's
putting lithium in the berkeley water supply?
\_ OMG, good point! We're all going to die someday
so it doesn't matter if someone kills me! You
just blew my mind!
\_ 1300 certainly did not die because of violent crime.
The point is that the Bush Administration is lying to
us (again) by minimizing the violence.
\_ Ethnic cleansing - it's okay!
\_ Darfur is ethnic cleansing. You're clueless and knee jerk.
\_ No, I'm making fun of the asshat that thinks 1300 deaths is
"okay."
\_ I think he was being sarcastic. No deaths are "ok" but
people die. How/why they died is more important than the
number.
\_ Okay, how's this? Imagine if 16,000 Americans had died
in the last two days because the Italians and the Irish
in New York had decided to start killing each other.
Would that be "ok?" I think the thrust of the article
is that far more people died over the weekend than
most media had been reporting. Sadly it takes a certain
death "threshold" to get media attention these days,
as we seem to have gotten used to Iraq being a total
clusterfuck (along with most other things our
government is doing these days).
\_ If it bleeds, it leads. You won't find me defending
the media but frankly what's going on in Iraq is
actually pretty minor compared to many situation in
both the distant and very recent past as well as
*right now* in several parts of the world. I'm much
more disgusted at all the other things the media
ignores than their Iraq coverage. Most people can't
even tell you that Darfur isn't a new brand of beer
or an ice cream flavor.
\- Darfur is trivial compared to the toll of
malaria. So was the tsunami. There is more
to it than "if it bleeds it leads" and
the 1300 is just a small chapter of the
overall iraq story.
\_ What? You think the tsunami wasn't
covered or we're not pumping enough
cash into malaria/insect control? And
you think an act of god is worse than
one people enslaving and wiping out
another race with intent and malice?
No. You're just a lame troll. D-
\- i'm not trolling. my point is the that
significant of a story isnt just a
matter of the casualty numbers. darfur
is being convered a fair amount. not
much is being done about it but the
coverage is there. there are a lot of
aspects to the malaria story ... how
foreign aid dollars for public health
are spent, the stupidity of DDT usage
policy etc. it is interesting to note
the difference in casaulaty counts in
ex-yugoslavia where the US led sig
intervention and conflicts in africa
with much higher casualty counts where
nothing was done.
\_ Good point -- we'd better just sit back and let
them kill each other until the butcher's bill is
at least as bad as some of those other places.
Right. Thanks for the insight, there, Tex.
\_ Good way to completely and intentionally miss
the point.
\_ Thanks. |
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