Pravda, anyone?
Aug. 5th, 2003 03:32 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
elfsOne of the more salient comments about the Soviet Union was that nobody in the country knew what the Hell was going on inside. To learn about what it's goverment was really up to, Soviet citizens had to turn to outside press, like that from the UK.
Guess what? Now, so do we. The Bush administration and the U.S. press have been silent about this: the number of soldiers killed in Iraq since "the end of hostilities" is more than twice what we've been told. Even NPR this morning repeated the statistic of 52 combat deaths, but nobody has informed us that in fact 112 soldiers have died, most of them in accidents related to the Iraqi enviroment. Three have been suicides. And, more imporantly, we haven't been kept abreast of nearly a thousand wounded, including those who have been seriously maimed and will suffer for the rest of their lives as a result of this war. The total number of soldiers killed since the beginning of hostilities is nearly 240, twice what we took in Gulf War 1.
I understand the concept of a "just war," but this keeping the truth out of the press for fear of demoralizing the citizens is irresponsible journalism in the extreme.
In a nutshell, why I loathe Bush: The mother of all big spenders: Bush spends like Carter and panders like Clinton.
I know, I promised I wouldn't post news more than once a day. But this is really infuriating me.
Guess what? Now, so do we. The Bush administration and the U.S. press have been silent about this: the number of soldiers killed in Iraq since "the end of hostilities" is more than twice what we've been told. Even NPR this morning repeated the statistic of 52 combat deaths, but nobody has informed us that in fact 112 soldiers have died, most of them in accidents related to the Iraqi enviroment. Three have been suicides. And, more imporantly, we haven't been kept abreast of nearly a thousand wounded, including those who have been seriously maimed and will suffer for the rest of their lives as a result of this war. The total number of soldiers killed since the beginning of hostilities is nearly 240, twice what we took in Gulf War 1.
I understand the concept of a "just war," but this keeping the truth out of the press for fear of demoralizing the citizens is irresponsible journalism in the extreme.
In a nutshell, why I loathe Bush: The mother of all big spenders: Bush spends like Carter and panders like Clinton.
The nation's budgetary situation continues to deteriorate because the administration's fiscal policy has been decidedly more about politics than policy. Even the tax cuts, which happened to be good policy, were still political in nature considering their appeal to the Republican's conservative base. At the same time, the politicos running the Bush reelection machine have consistently tried to placate or silence the liberals and special interests by throwing money at their every whim and desire. In mathematical terms, the administration calculates that satiated conservatives plus silenced liberals equals reelection.
I know, I promised I wouldn't post news more than once a day. But this is really infuriating me.
