I thought Bill Moyers' "Buying the War" was a significant and sorely needed exposé on the U.S. media's failure to perform its most basic duty -- to report the truth -- in the months before the Iraq war.
But did their failures end when the first bombs were unleashed in Baghdad?
We subsist on a steady diet of infotainment news, with cursory war coverage consisting of sanitized images that betray the true human cost of the occupation to "them" as well as "us".
Estimates of the Iraqi war dead range from 64,000 to over 655,000. We do not see them on our televisions, or read about THEIR stories, THEIR sacrifices, THEIR tragedies, THEIR hopes and dashed dreams.
Today, as we hear words like honor, sacrifice, valor and heroism used to describe our fallen soldiers, let us also take a moment to consider the interconnectedness of all human life and remember the innocents mourned by the Iraqi people. Please continue...
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