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In the grocery store is a composite Time-Life book of pictures from the war. In the distance, a US convoy moves down a road. In the foreground a dead Iraqi soldier, violently killed, with a tortured expression on his face, and it quite clear who this man was. Geneva violation?
Been waiting for weeks for someone, anyone, in any forum, to complain about this Geneva Convention violation. Most certainly not the George Jr administration since human rights only need be honored upon Americans. But what surprised me is the numbers of us - we - people who would complain about dead Americans from an ambushed convoy, but not complain about same picture of a dead Iraqi soldier. This, my friends, is the same emotion that creates racism. The double standard. That Iraqi soldier deserved the same complaining from those who complained that Al Jezzera showed dead American bodies. Double standards that make me embarrased of some of our peers.
Lets see the dead bodies in car accidents complete with the facts why that body was killed, in gruesome detail - so we learn. And shoot those who watch only for the thrill OR who are appalled at the carnage. They are both an enemy of truth because they are emotional.
I still want to see those dead American bodies from that ambush. That was the Best Evidence. Evidence desired even more as we discover how the event was twisted into lies in Washington. And I want to see the Hussein Bros. so that lies by our administration would be more difficult. Stop the emotional foolishness and lets see the facts - blunt and bloody.
For that matter, I am not so sure that the US military attack on Al Jazzera in Baghdad was an accident - because the facts are not being exposed in bloody detail. But American not complaining about that dead Iraqi soldier in that Time-Life coffee table book - demonstrates how many American have a double standard - are patriotic Americans only when it is convenient.
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