"Market bombings kill 45 in Baghdad" - - America yawns

[Bluebear]

Of course, the VT shootings are absolutely heartbreaking. But so are the deaths of innocent Iraqis going to market to purchase their damn dinner supplies. This planet is teeming with death and despair. :(

[Mr. Ected]

1. 32 Dead In One Day In America, And We Go Into A Frenzy

Reports like this have been coming out of Iraq for years now, and many Americans dismiss it like it doesn't exist.

[Karenina]

2. Brought to you by...

[panader0]

3. College Columbine Karma

What if the VT shooter is an Iraqi who lost his or her children in the war?

[Cessna Invesco Palin]

4. Indeed.

And people in Russia don't give a fuck about the people dying in Darfur. The people in Darfur don't give a fuck about the people dying in Iraq. The people in the Sudan don't give a fuck about the people dying in Virginia. It's human nature.

[malaise]

5. Those brown people don't count

Ask MSM. :sarcasm:

By the way another Iraqi Professor was also killed today.

Add.

[Disturbed]

7. After a while people grow accustomed to reports of deaths.

I don't feel that most Americans are callous. Deaths oust side of US borders are more remote than deaths of Americans within the US. If violent deaths on a larger scale were occurring in the US on a daily basis people would probably become somewhat immune to those, as well.

[rec_report]

6. Right, you have to be an American (and not a US soldier, either ) for Bush...

to count the death as a death.
Polar Bear

[stray cat]

8. How do you stop it from happening in Iraq?

Give Americans a solution that prevents Iraqis from killing innocent Iraqis and I suspect they wouldn't yawn. Tell us how you will stop it and it will have an audience. Leaving or staying is unlikely to stop it. Also, what about those who are dying in Africa? Those who are dying of AIDS, starvation etc. People killing each other in the inner cities?

[Bluebear]

9. You don't have to have the solution to mourn its happening. nt

[Hippo_Tron]

10. Both are tragedies

I don't think that we should ignore the Virginia Tech incident by any means, but there is nothing wrong with pointing out that Iraqis have to deal with this EVERY DAY.

[Terri S]

11. it's "better to fight them there than here"

Every time I hear this statment my blood pressure explodes.

Now remember, there were no "them" there before we got there. We invaded a country that had nothing to do with harming us and no imminent threat to do so. We basically brought in the 'terrorists' and as a result hundreds of thousands of innocent people have died. So whenever I hear this statement from * and his ilk, I hear "oh well, better them than us". And whenever anyone repeats it, that is EXACTLY what they are saying. The country goes apeshit over a hasbeen nobody spouting the same disgusting drool he has for decades, but hey...hundreds of thousands of dead brown people day in and day out for 4 years .. what the hell... better there than here...better them than us. ugh!

[Bronyraurus]

12. Easy

We've got a few things to take care of around here today.

Yes, Americans matter more to Americans than Iraqis do.

[marmar]

13. I'm not yawning, Bluebear. I scream about it everyday.....

to people much more concerned about the new iPhone and America's Top Model. Sometimes I feel like Americans are a lost cause, and if this country does tank, it's cosmic karma.

[Matsubara]

14. I'm in Japan, so I just woke up to this nightmare bloodbath.

I don not yawn at what happened in Iraw, but every attack that happens there is for a purpose - to drive the illegal invaders OUT of their country. They are doing exactly what we

might do if we were occupied by an invader.


But what happened at VT is just so pointless and senseless, even compared to the wispy justifications for violence in a war for independence.