Are none of you having twinges of conscience?

Do you feel better knowing that over a hundred thousand Iraqi civilians have been murdered "incidentally" by coalition forces in Iraq? That half a million children are now suffering from starvation over there? That unemployment sits at 70% in their country? That whole towns and cities are being raised?

FOR WHAT??
For your "security"?
For their "free elections"?
For retribution for the 3,000 American lives lost at the World trade Center/ (Is GWB on an American Jihad?)

James Petras (Professor Emeritus of Sociology at Binghampton University, New York ) says "I am reading William Shirer's Berlin Diary, a journalist's account of Nazi political propaganda during the 1930's, as I watch the US 'news' reports of the violent assault on Fallujah. The US mass media 'reports', the style, content and especially the language echo their Nazi predecessor of 70 years ago to an uncanny degree.

For example:

>Both in Nazi Germany and contemporary US, we are told by the mass media that the invading armies are "freeing the country" of "foreign fighters", "armed terrorists", who are preventing "the people" from going about their everyday lives.

> For the US network NBC, the dropping of 500-pound bombs in the city of Fallujah is described as targeting an "insurgent tunnel network in the city".

>The media refer to the patriots defending their country from the imperial invaders as--'insurgents' minimizing the significance of a nation-wide patriotic liberation movement.

>The terror bombing of homes, hospitals and religious buildings by hundreds of airplanes and helicopter gunships are described by the media as 'securing the city for free elections'.

> 'Freeing the city of insurgents' includes the systematic murder of friends, neighbors and relatives of every Iraqi living in the city of Fallujah .

>'Surrounding the insurgents' means cutting off water, electricity, medical aid for 200,000 civilians in the city and putting tens of thousands who fled under threat of a typhoid epidemic. 'Pacifying the city' involves turning it to absolute desolate poisoned rubble.

For his complete article, read <here>. I have to agree with him. Media propaganda has anethsetized us to wholesale murder beyond belief. Go back to your televisions and brewskis, for none of this concerns you.