What War?

Just one mans opinion

It’s pretty clear to me that since Scott McLellen’s confirmation that indeed the Iraqi war was a wag the dog affair and that lies, innuendoes and half-truths were the vehicle in which a scarred shitless Congress and Press were complicit in the run up to the Iraqi invasion, they got some splaining to do and some penance.

Now, I’ve seen a few of the “mainstream puppets” trying to justify what clearly happened. David Gregory’s self-congratulatory statement that the MSM did a good job eerily invoked Bush’s hecka of job Brownie moment. Pathetic. So, the splaining isn’t giving me a reason to forgive them now or when the up coming “mistakes were made” explanation rears its ugly head.

At the end of the Vietnam War, 33 of my 300 high school graduating class (a blue collar union town in the rust belt) had lost their lives fighting that war, over 10%. I watched with horror on our first color TV, the battles, the wounded and the dead being carried off to heal to die or to bury. It was on the morning news and the evening news, it was talked about, and the country felt the pain of that war and we went to the streets in protest. Why, because it was being reported in real-time and showed real men living and dying. No politics or propaganda was interjected or suppressed into those images.

My 14-year old grandson, a bright boy, knows intellectually that there’s a war, but that’s it. He’s not invested in it; he doesn’t see real reporting or flag draped coffins being loaded off an airplane in the newspapers or the evening news. I suggest a good share of American has much in common with my grandson’s perception of this war.

Hiding the human costs of this war has served its purpose beautifully for the criminals that occupy the White House and if the press has finally pulled its self from the tit of GWB then I want to see the moratorium lifted on covering the human costs of the Iraqi war.

I want to see the wounded and dead being carried off the battlefields, and I want to see funerals. I want my grandson to understand what war is in real-time. I want this from the Press and I want it now. If they don’t, and continue to hid its human costs and suffering under the orders of the White House…then we have no press – we have no third rail – and those 100’s of thousands of fallen American men and women who went to past wars to secure our American way of life have been wasted…wasted by the MSM of 2003-2008.

 It would be a start to the necessary penance owed this country by the MSM.