In yet another example of the U.S. media failing to correctly assess blame for the horrors visited upon innocent civilians in Iraq the L.A. Times reports:
"At the suggestion of an Iraqi women's group, the Marine Corps
recently bought 50 cows for 50 Iraqi widows in the farm belt around
Fallouja, once the insurgent capital of war-torn Anbar province.
The cow purchase is seen as a small step toward reestablishing Iraq's once-thriving dairy industry, as well as a way to help women and children hurt by the frequent failure of the Iraqi government to provide the pensions that Iraqi law promises to widows."
[The bold is mine. The widow, below, is doing what she can. The violence that killed her husband is a direct result of our decision to use violence in Iraq.]
I would suggest a more accurate "hurt by the United States' invasion, occupation, and destruction of Iraq."
It's not that the cow wont help. It's that the children of today who read twisted truth get the impression that we are so very, very good.
It's like what that gentleman in the audience said to Noor after she spoke about the conditions in Baghdad under the occupation. "Hey," he said. "What about all the good we do? What about the children we fly to U.S. hospitals and give them arms and legs?"
And he was serious. And I assume the LA Time is serious, too. Too, too sad.
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