(via)But CNN was just getting started. With about 150,000 American forces in the theater, there will of course be all sorts of ordinary non-combat-related accidents resulting in death and injury: automobile accidents, slips and falls, and all the contusions and abrasions associated with the inevitable difficulties of living. And beyond that, people will fall ill, with everything from heart attacks to appendicitis. So CNN added to its mix every disabling accident and illness sustained by members of our armed forces in Iraq since the invasion began in March 2003.
Never mind that such casualties could, and in many cases would, have been sustained by these people even if they had stayed in the United States and never laid eyes on Iraq. No such consideration fazed CNN. By adding non-combat injuries and illnesses to its total, CNN managed to inflate it astronomically. The figures "50,000" loomed on the screen.
So, the war's not the tragic result of misused intelligence and a catalyst for further animosity and violence throughout the Middle East but beyond that, the men and women wounded and dying aren't regretable casualties, they're just accelerated situations of enevitability. Makes sense, with all the shot down Black Hawks we've been seeing in Georgia to the IEDs in Idaho, they were bound to lose a leg or an eye sooner or later.
Criminal.
*this overlooks the whining about CNN being on the cruise ship's TVs instead of Fox, for balance.
Posted by kerry at November 23, 2006 02:58 AM