Iraqi Blood, Dirt Cheap

from AlterNet's PEEK:



Iraqi Blood, Dirt Cheap

Posted by Fatih Abdulsalam, Azzaman at 3:36 AM on July 21, 2008.

Iraqi blood started flowing in buckles, then barrels, then streams and then rivers.




Five years ago, international media weighed Iraqi blood drop by drop. Every drop that was shed was newsworthy and occupied their highlights.

That was with the start of the U.S. invasion of 2003.

But as the invasion which the occupiers -- the U.S. and the U.K. -- sold to us as 'liberation' turned into one of the most devastating and destructive military campaigns in man's history, Iraqi blood started flowing in buckles, then barrels, then streams and then rivers.

It was too much for the media to accommodate. It became commonplace and in media terms no longer newsworthy despite the lakes and oceans that began forming as the streams and rivers started discharging their blood.

Iraqi deaths are no longer important. Their numbers attract no more attention. If the deaths are too many, then a subtitle will do the job.

Iraqis are being killed, injured and maimed in droves on a daily basis. But still that is not enough reason for the media to care.

Someone killed anywhere else -- Israel, Pakistan, India, Lebanon, you name it -- gets more attention than the daily flood of Iraqi blood.

Today Iraqi deaths have no place to be buried like millions of Iraqi refugees who have nowhere to go with almost all countries shutting their doors in their face.

There is even no one to collect the body parts of Iraqis as they are torn to pieces during U.S. military operations or car bombings. A respected burial is a dream in Iraq today. ......(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.alternet.org/blogs/peek/92150/

would honestly cover this aspect of the 'success'. :(