And they even take pictures as they reel.
Note to wingnuts: keep believing it's just a few "dead enders".
From Deficient Brain:
These are a stills taken from a video supplied by an Iraqi insurgent group calling itself "Omar ibn Alkhatab brigade attached to the Islamic Anger Brigades" in Iraq, which the insurgents claim shows a stationary vehicle exploding as an American convoy passes on the northern outskirts of Baghdad, Iraq Monday Jan. 3, 2005. There was no confirmation of casualties from the U.S. military. The AP is unable to authenticate the image taken from this footage. (AP Photo/Via APTN)
And, from a Letter to the Editor printed today in the Madison, Wi. Capital Times:
Dear Editor:
The American media should be lauded for their massive coverage of the recent loss of untold numbers of human lives due to nature's wrath. What puzzles me and what should be puzzling to most people is the obvious disparity in their coverage of the number of Iraqi civilians who have died in the last 21 months.
Several weeks ago I happened upon a brief article tucked inside the pages of one of several newspapers I read daily. It noted that some experts have suggested that as many as 100,000 noncombatants - 40 percent of whom were women and children - not only were killed, but that the majority of these casualties resulted from air raids, cluster bombs and artillery from our own coalition.
Where is the outrage about these deaths? Why haven't members of the media spread this news across the front pages of our newspapers and across our TV screens? Are the lives of innocent Iraqis somehow of less value because we can justify their deaths by slapping a label on them?
Apparently the term "collateral damage," like a thick coat of paint, is able to cover a multitude of sins.
Patricia Mitchell, Mukwonago
...and this, from California:
SAN FRANCISCO - A slide in support for the war in Iraq has kept President Bush's overall job approval rating in California at just 42 percent, a new survey found.
The poll released Monday by the Survey and Policy Research Institute at San Jose State University found that 60 percent of California adults disapprove of the president's handling of Iraq and do not believe that the war in Iraq was worth fighting. In September, just 54 percent said the war was not worth it...
Ok, then - where were these people before Nov. 2? Did they set their alarm clocks late?
Update, 9:30AM Lastly, via a comment on Eschaton, the chickens are indeed coming home to roost:
CERES — A United States Marine shot two police officers, one fatally, Sunday night. In a second gun battle three hours later, officers shot and killed the suspect...
...Three hours after the shooting, police shot and killed the suspect when they found him behind a nearby home. Police said Monday that the 19-year-old Modesto man, reported absent without leave from Camp Pendleton Saturday night, had served in Iraq and did not want to return.
Bring 'em on, indeed.
