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post #1 of 7
4/18/07 at 11:56am
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Car bombs kill 170 in Baghdad, 200 more wounded.

http://in.today.reuters.com/news/new...a-294678-6.xml

I'm posting this in IMO because I suspect it will raise another debate on the war.

There are simply too many attacks that happen too frequently. I pay attention to these stories, and am frustrated by our national media who spends more time talking about irrelevant things like the father of Anna Nichols baby, than killings with an order or magnitude far greater than VT.

Will this get play time in the media with VT going on? Probably not, and it's a shame.

So I ask to light a candle for the victims of the latest victims in Baghdad, and keep these people in your thoughts. I can't image what I would do if I were living over there right now.
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post #2 of 7
4/18/07 at 12:42pm
When I got home from work today, I turned on CNN, and saw the banners running along the bottom of the screen. One indicated the number of dead and wounded from the Virginia Tech massacre, and the other the latest atrocity in Iraq. I assume, and actually hope, that the comparison was deliberate. The former was an isolated incident, the latter something that is happening on a more or less daily basis.

The other thing that bothered me was the reaction to the VT shootings in South Korea. So many people went out on the streets to show their solidarity with the victims, and the government expressed its condolences, and fears of repercussions. The shooter moved to the U.S. at the age of 8, meaning he spent almost 2/3 of his life in the U.S.. What role does his ancestry/country of birth play in those circumstances? A rather small one, I'd say.
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post #3 of 7
4/18/07 at 1:13pm
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Originally Posted by jcat View Post
When I got home from work today, I turned on CNN, and saw the banners running along the bottom of the screen. One indicated the number of dead and wounded from the Virginia Tech massacre, and the other the latest atrocity in Iraq. I assume, and actually hope, that the comparison was deliberate. The former was an isolated incident, the latter something that is happening on a more or less daily basis.

The other thing that bothered me was the reaction to the VT shootings in South Korea. So many people went out on the streets to show their solidarity with the victims, and the government expressed its condolences, and fears of repercussions. The shooter moved to the U.S. at the age of 8, meaning he spent almost 2/3 of his life in the U.S.. What role does his ancestry/country of birth play in those circumstances? A rather small one, I'd say.
I agree. If the shooter had been a white male, would there be repercussions against all white males? No. I certainly hope the fears of the Korean people about retaliation are unfounded.
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post #4 of 7
4/18/07 at 4:05pm
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Originally Posted by jcat View Post
When I got home from work today, I turned on CNN, and saw the banners running along the bottom of the screen. One indicated the number of dead and wounded from the Virginia Tech massacre, and the other the latest atrocity in Iraq. I assume, and actually hope, that the comparison was deliberate. The former was an isolated incident, the latter something that is happening on a more or less daily basis.
There are estimates that there at least as many people killed in Iraq each day as there were at VT.

I would never dream of down playing what happened at VT. But I would like some up play on what is happening to the innocent civilians in Iraq.
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post #5 of 7
4/18/07 at 5:48pm
I have sympathy for the tragedies in Iraq and my heart breaks for the people of Iraq...but can we not just simply grieve for Virginia Tech without comparing it to Iraq? Can't we leave everything else out of the picture for a moment and mourn the losses without questioning why this particular incident gets more media coverage than another?
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post #6 of 7
4/18/07 at 6:07pm
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Originally Posted by Kellyyfaber View Post
I have sympathy for the tragedies in Iraq and my heart breaks for the people of Iraq...but can we not just simply grieve for Virginia Tech without comparing it to Iraq? Can't we leave everything else out of the picture for a moment and mourn the losses without questioning why this particular incident gets more media coverage than another?
I'm not questioning it. I'm frustrated that one set of lives has more significance than the other. Death of the innocent should be mourned, regardless of their place of birth.
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post #7 of 7
4/19/07 at 7:24am
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I'm not questioning it. I'm frustrated that one set of lives has more significance than the other. Death of the innocent should be mourned, regardless of their place of birth.

That's right. I always hate when there's some tragedy, they say how many if any Americans were killed. Like we should only be reallly upset if our own countrymen died anad breath a sigh of relief if the dead have homes elsewhere. All of this senseless killing is sickening in any country and for any reason.
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