How Can War Be Wholesome Family Entertainment?

Addendum: Additional Pictures and Links

 
The ABC News November 14, 2004 broadcast included video of U.S. Marines fighting in Falluja, Iraq. It also showed U.S.-appointed Iraqi leader Iyad Allawi saying that the offensive was a success. No blood and no bodies -- a sanitized-for-television version of the war.
In the midst of some of the bloodiest fighting in the Iraq War, the national debate was over the "moral values" of a promo for Monday Night Football. On November 16, 2004, before the game, Philadelphia Eagles receiver Terrell Owens appears in an ad embracing actress Nicollette Sheridan from the ABC evening soap opera Desperate Housewives. ABC apologized for the ad, but probably loved the publicity.

Terry Mosher -- Aislin of The Montreal Gazette.

Cost of the War in Iraq

 

The artwork of Jose Guadalupe Posada


Fallujah in Pictures

Pictures from Fallujah that probably won't be on your television.

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Talking heads on television will never tell the truth about war.
Only by educating yourself, can you uncover reality.
The Internet is an amazing resource for alternative viewpoints.
Gather the facts and form your own opinions.
-- Ron Kaufman
"Extending the war into Iraq would have incurred incalculable human and political costs. We would have been forced to occupy Baghdad and, in effect, rule Iraq. The coalition would instantly have collapsed, the Arabs deserting in anger and other allies pulling out as well. Exceeding the U.N.'s mandate would have destroyed the precedent of international response to aggression we hoped to establish. Had we gone the invasion route, the U.S. could still be an occupying power in a bitterly hostile land."

-- From "Why We Didn't Remove Saddam"
by George Bush [Sr.] and Brent Scowcroft, Time Magazine, 1998

"I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity."
-- Dwight David Eisenhower

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