Did anyone see the BBC World News tonight - kids dying in Iraq

[Woodstock]

They showed the sewage in the streets and said things are getting worse, not better. Now UN aid workers are leaving.

Then they showed kids on the verge of death in a hospital from diarrhea directly attributable to the lack of infrastructure.

Just last week a guy in a clean suit in an air conditioned building after eating a nice lunch paid for out of his 100K a year salary asked me, with all the assurance of being right, the Iraqis are better off now. I said sure, all those dead people must be really happy Sadaam is gone. I wish every American who backed this war would be forced to live a day in the hell that we've created.

[ComerPerro]

1. You are just angry because they are free

You don't hate freedom, do you?
That would make you an America-hater.
And a terrorist.

Now tell me how happy your are that the Iraqi people are free, and then come worship Bush with me. Its time for the two-minute hate.

[virtualobserver]

2. Yes, it was very sad.

Most people don't even watch the news anymore, and even fewer watch anything as informative as the BBC World News.

The conditions there are almost beyond belief. Luckily, Paul Bremer was able to vacation in Vermont this week with his family.

[Divernan]

4. Imagine the documentary on the Bush administration in 50 years.

It will be like films of Buchenwald interspersed with Hitler's Nazi spectaculars/parades/rallies, interspersed with his little weekends at his mountaintop resort. We'll see the Iraqi children born with birth defects from Iraq War One, and then the slaughtered and mutilated civilians/children from Iraq War Two, interspersed with clips of Bush golfing in Texas, Bush golfing in Kennebunkport, US workers at the unemployment offices, and of course Bush at his hundreds of fund raising galas, the demise of social security and medicare, the billions in profits going to Chaney's corporation on no-bid contracts. Oh yeah, and the aftermath of Depleted Uranium on US vets and everyone else who was in Iraq. God, I'm depressed from writing this.

[Woodstock]

6. And this will start to hit home, too

Kids sick from from all the air and water pollution Bush unleashed, and not eating right or getting medical care because their parents are out of work. And Joni Mitchell's song coming true - a tree museum. Women dying because Bush's religious right judges wouldn't allow them to get an abortion even to save the life of the mother. Ashcroft imprisioning people for writing anti-government emails. Another 9/11. We could well see these things and much more if Bush gets another term. Remember watching all of those Nazi Germany documentaries, and wondering, how could the people have let this happen? They will think the same when they watch this chapter in US history. Didn't the people see?

[madrchsod]

3. war crimes

war crimes that will go down in history.

[alcuno]

5. But the 101st airborne has an "internet cafe"

That was the good news from Iraq on (NBC or ABC). I can't remember which one it was.

[Woodstock]

7. Sadly, I get all my radio/TV news from the Brits

I can't trust the drivel coming over the US networks. I've been watching "So Graham Norton" lately, and one week he filmed over here in NY. He said, I turned on the TV when I got here, and guess what? We are now winning in Iraq!

It really bugs me that they have held inquiries into the Iraq lies but the Republicans here are burying any efforts to make the government accountable.