If this horrible incident had happened to Iraqis would it be news?

[pauldp]

It would be just another day in Baghdad.

[nadinbrzezinski]

1. Would be news for five seconds

[meegbear]

2. Unfortunately, you are correct.

[Kraklen]

3. 300 Iraqis die every day.

If only forty Iraqis were killed it'd be good news.

[Norwood]

4. Would be a footnote and a 5 second clip on TV

[Bouncy Ball]

Nope.

It would be just another day. There would be a news story or two, as there are almost every day.

But it would hardly cause a blip. On a lot of American's radars it wouldn't even be a blip at all.

What? Iraqis dying? Where?

:eyes:

Londoners deserve grief and mourning just as much as Iraqis.

And Iraqis deserve all that just as much as anyone else.

I place no humans higher than others as far as the value of their life. Life is life.

[Vincardog]

5. It is not terrorism when we do it. 100,000 Iraqis dead by our hands

and not a word about it on the newz

[lebkuchen]

6. Which shows the schizoid tendencies of the American public

Even though we are there to "free" the Iraqis, we exhibit little to no reaction when we kill them.

[getmeouttahere]

7. But Iraqi lives don't count...

if there is a God (and as a lifelong christian I have questioned this in the last few years) BushCo will get theirs, someday!

[noamnety]

8. No, it wouldn't be news

This morning I posted a story on another forum about bomb blasts killing 40 two weeks ago ... and nobody knew what country it happened in - and one person replied that the media doesn't cover Africa very well, so they didn't know about it. (It was Iraq)

[bullimiami]

9. it has. over and over.

and noone seems to care that much.

i guess middle easter blood isnt worth much in the west. shameful.

[damntexdem]

10. Only if the U.S. could blame Al Qaeda or other Iraqis.

If it had resulted from U.S. bombing, then no, it would not be news.