Here's an image you won't likely see in this weekend's network talk shows. While some Americans remain undecided on who they'll vote for this coming presidential election, more innocent civilians continue to meet untimely deaths in Fallajuh this week as American troops launch "precision strikes" in "suspected" terrorists hideouts.
Fueled by the same military strategists who "suspected" the existence of weapons of mass destruction, which led to this war. It's amazing to me how the press uses terms like precision military strikes to justify the slaughter of innocent civilians and American troops, while civilians who are trying to protect their homes from aggressors in the middle east are never distinguished from real terrorists.
Can you imagine seeing that much destruction and death on a daily basis in say, the streets of New York City? I know I can't. George W. Bush's campaign rhetoric of ensuring our safety if he's re-elected, winning the war on terrorism and rebuilding Iraq would certainly take on a different tone if grotesque images of the casualities in Fallujah and American troops in body bags were projected on the backdrop during one of his campaign speeches.
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