Outrage for 1 innocent Italian dead == what about the 10,000 Iraqis?
It's horrible to what happend with the Italian journalist, the brave Italian secret sevrice who negotiated her release and the tragic death at a "US Military hit" to be determined.
But what about the 10,000 or so innocnet Iraqi's in this war?
Who points out the US errors?
Where is their state funeral?
Where is the outrage of the occupationa and slain of the innocence?
It goes to show you how the media views a "life". If you are rich or connected...it means something. If you are an innocnet child of God in Iraq --- what does that mean?
People have followed this story and can't help but be outraged by the tragic ending. Nobody (no reporters) are really covering the individual stories of innocent Iraqis who are dying in this mess.
cannot be individualized, lest it stop being the 'other' and become something far more familiar... a dead Iraqi is a statistic, who in any case had it coming to them. We couldn't sleep at night otherwise.
is newsworthy because the victims lived to tell about the attack and it makes for an intriguing story. I'm sure most people with a conscience agonize over the deaths of thousands of Iraq citizens by the US action in this un-called for and illegal war that cannot even be described as pre-emptive.
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