My LTTE in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette today...

[Freedomofspeech]

Perhaps a reality show would make Americans care about the Iraq fiasco


I'm still amazed that "American Idol" is so much more newsworthy to people than the nightmare in Iraq. We need some true "reality" television.

Let's have a show about the soldiers who have given up their lives for no apparent reason, or let's visit a hospital full of young men and women who have lost their limbs and whose lives are ruined thanks to this invasion of Iraq. Maybe interview some family members and friends of these soldiers, so we can understand how their lives will never be the same.

Let's send cameras to Iraq and show pictures of the dead and wounded Iraqis and all the people who are homeless. Maybe the History Channel could do a series about how we have destroyed the history of a country and started a civil war.

Perhaps we could see a soap opera about the billions of dollars wasted on this fiasco and all the programs cut in this country due to a lack of federal funding.

None of these shows would get any corporate sponsors, because most Americans don't seem to be affected by any of this and are totally lacking compassion or passion about this "war."

We have lost respect all over the world and are pushing democracy on Iraq, while giving it up in our own country. President Bush has run amok with his power, and Congress needs to stop him

Please call your representative and senators and tell them not to support the surge, and join the peace rally in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 27.

[babydollhead]

1. excellent! ...fellow Pittsburgher here

a bunch of us are going to be in d.c. on saturday.

[Freedomofspeech]

2. Me, too....

will be on the Codepink bus.

[Junkdrawer]

3. We had our "Lessons from Vietnam", and, it appears, they had theirs...

1.) Use only a volunteer army and/or mercenaries

2.) Keep the death and destruction off the TeeVee

[midnight]

4. Let's do that for no other reason than you can't get more real

than the crimes being commited over there. But instead we should name it the Reality Show for The most Wanted. Everyone gets to vote in on who the criminals are and help get them arrested, and prosecuted.

[Efilroft Sul]

5. Good job!

Fellow Burghermeister here, as well.

[NewJeffCT]

6. excellent letter - do you have a link?

Congrats on getting published.

[Freedomofspeech]

7. Thanks...

http://www.post-gazette.com/