Elonka wrote:
] inignoct wrote:
] ] If Bush is going to use the good job he's done in Iraq as a
] ] campaign strategy, then it's only fair to remind people that
]
] ] there are a lot of dead americans to account for, not to
] ] mention the dead Iraqis, who we speak little of. Sometimes
] ] that reminder needs to be harsh to get the attention it
] ] deserves... people tune out numbers, they tune out
] ] statistics, they acclimate and stop paying attention to the
] ] endless parade of dead and wounded. If this sort of thing
] can
] ] wake them up to the reality of the situation then the
] purpose
] ] it serves tends to validate it.
]
] Um, last I checked, the War in Iraq, and the number of dead,
] has been getting *enormous* attention. This isn't a
] backburner issue that people need to be woken up to, this is
] an issue that's already on every single front page.
]
] I agree with Decius.

Ryan: That may be true; however, what doesn't get enough attention in my view is the administrations attempt to elude responsibility for it. People need to wake up and realize what has happened. It's like the bumper sticker says: If you aren't infuriated, you aren't paying attention.

It is reprehensible to me that the conservative commentators require we avoid talking about the needlessness of this war when the soldiers are in harms way without reailzing that the reason we (the anti-war folks) believe the war was needless BECAUSE of the human cost involved here. And while I didn't post this photo as the end-all be-all of political commentary (that's what the 30 political analysis blogs I read are for), I do believe inignoct's points are entirely valid.

RE: Bush photomosaic of American dead in Iraq