by Norman Solomon

Common Dreams

01/27/05

'The story today is going to be very discouraging to the American people,' President Bush said at a news conference Wednesday, hours after 37 American troops died in Iraq. 'I understand that. We value life. And we weep and mourn when soldiers lose their life.' How long will the U.S. news media continue to indulge that sort of pious talk from the White House without challenge? The evidence is overwhelming that the president and his policy team are quite willing to devalue -- in fact, destroy -- life when it gets in their way. And if they 'weep and mourn when soldiers lose their life,' the grief is rigorously selective. The day Bush can 'weep and mourn' when anti-occupation fighters 'lose their life' in Iraq will be the day he transcends his oily fundamentalism. But no such day is on the presidential calendar...

http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0127-22.htm


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp