Posted March 19, 2005

194,000 [ http://www.cjr.org/issues/2005/2/voices-guterman.asp ] men, women, and children in Iraq and Afghanistan have been murdered by the radical American republican 'right'. Although the corporate media has been fairly successful at damage control, in hiding this mass slaughter from the American people, it's like the Nazi death camps, eventually the mass graves and the mass murder can't be hidden or white washed or labeled as 'a war against terrorism', anymore. Eventually the true horror of the Bush regime's megalomania will be known to all including the dumbed down American masses. The radical right is aware of the stench of death that now surrounds them. They want to find any acceptable way they can to divert peoples ever growing attention from their actions. They are always on the lookout for any non-issue which usually affects only a tiny group of people. They use these non issues to frame themselves as compassionate and heroic without actually doing anything that would change their policies. They want to make themselves appear to actually care about things like human life, while they simultaneously mass murder the Muslim people. Don't be fooled by their crocodile tears and caring emotions shown over Terri Schiavo. Oh yes, Republicans appear to be working tirelessly on an extraordinary last-minute push on Capitol Hill to use the subpoena powers of Congress to keep the brain-damaged woman, Terri Schiavo alive. Of course the obedient corporate media is spreading the word about the great republican compassion, but the media and the republicans aren't saying anything about the hundreds of thousands of women and children that are wounded and dieing in Iraq and Afghanistan.