RAGINGLY PSYCHOTIC NATION: But we'll pay for your new legs after we blow your real ones off in an air strike!
"[Ten year-old Salee Alawe] of Iraq lost her legs in what her family said was a US air strike on the outskirts of Baghdad, last November," wrote reporter Louis Sahagun in today's LA Times.
"Salee, who was discovered by her mother dragging herself over a pile of bricks, helped identify the remains of her 13-year old brother..."
"Salee recently was fitted with mechanical knees and prosthetic limbs ... Her sponsors wanted to give her a happy memory ... So they brought her and her father to Catalina Island."
On Catalina, Salee got to see the sights, enjoy a ride in a glass-bottomed boat, and meet an island fox named Tachi.
Here's the pisser, though, courtesy of the ragingly psychotic nation -- that big rich one that blew off your legs in a war alleged to be for the spreading of freedom and the preservation of all that is good and right.
Salee Allawe gets to go back to Iraq.
Read the entirety.
The ragingly psychotic nation is known by its mainstream media editors and reporters. Many of them can't resist turning a story that probably won't have a happy ending into something they can smile over and feel good about.
"We blew off her legs but this Iraqi girl still stays in love with life," was the thrust of this horrible piece at CBS News.
The Columbia Free Times, an alternative newspaper, where the news first appeared, turned in an originating piece which put the rest of its lunatic brethren at bigger media organizations to shame.
“I wanted to put a face to what is called ‘collateral damage,’” said Cole Miller, the man who brought Salee to this country, to the Columbia altie.
"... [A] large percentage of civilians who have been killed or wounded in Iraq are children ... If the American people had even an inkling of what we’re doing, they would put a stop to this ... Miller said air strikes would more than likely continue and escalate as the United States begins to withdraw, leaving many more casualties to come."
If you read the LA Times, you were told none of this.
Instead, just the feel good story about petting a fox and getting a ride in a glass-bottomed boat.
What fine people we are!
The Los Angeles Times, it should be noted, has editors and reporters who are infatuated with the local angle afforded by Iraq war amputees in LA county.
Every other week or so, it publishes feel good stories with photos of Iraq war veterans fitted with new artificial legs, arms or both, littered with can-do quotes about how everyone who has been maimed is simply aching to get back to golfing, boxing, running, surfing, etc.
To read these stories is to almost come away with the idea that getting ground up in Iraq is nothing more inconveniencing than what happened to Luke Skywalker when Darth Vader cut off his hand with a light saber.
Nothing to it, folks!
We'll just fit you up with a new robot hand and not only won't you be able to tell the difference, neither will your friends and enemies.
You'll be back to waving your light saber in no time, mates! You'll be the new bionic woman or man, just like on network TV. It's only months away from reality! You'll think getting maimed in an explosion was the best thing that ever happened to ya!
The ragingly psychotic nation will take your legs and then send you back where you came from, onto the battlefield, if you're a child.
Now that's one helluva feel good story. Heck, it's even great for telling to your own kids, perferably right before bed time, especially if they've been bad.
Columbia Free Times article on the same.
"Whenever nature leaves a hole in [the minds of Americans], she generally plasters it over with a thick coat of self-conceit." -- Longfellow
"[Ten year-old Salee Alawe] of Iraq lost her legs in what her family said was a US air strike on the outskirts of Baghdad, last November," wrote reporter Louis Sahagun in today's LA Times.
"Salee, who was discovered by her mother dragging herself over a pile of bricks, helped identify the remains of her 13-year old brother..."
"Salee recently was fitted with mechanical knees and prosthetic limbs ... Her sponsors wanted to give her a happy memory ... So they brought her and her father to Catalina Island."
On Catalina, Salee got to see the sights, enjoy a ride in a glass-bottomed boat, and meet an island fox named Tachi.
Here's the pisser, though, courtesy of the ragingly psychotic nation -- that big rich one that blew off your legs in a war alleged to be for the spreading of freedom and the preservation of all that is good and right.
Salee Allawe gets to go back to Iraq.
Read the entirety.
The ragingly psychotic nation is known by its mainstream media editors and reporters. Many of them can't resist turning a story that probably won't have a happy ending into something they can smile over and feel good about.
"We blew off her legs but this Iraqi girl still stays in love with life," was the thrust of this horrible piece at CBS News.
The Columbia Free Times, an alternative newspaper, where the news first appeared, turned in an originating piece which put the rest of its lunatic brethren at bigger media organizations to shame.
“I wanted to put a face to what is called ‘collateral damage,’” said Cole Miller, the man who brought Salee to this country, to the Columbia altie.
"... [A] large percentage of civilians who have been killed or wounded in Iraq are children ... If the American people had even an inkling of what we’re doing, they would put a stop to this ... Miller said air strikes would more than likely continue and escalate as the United States begins to withdraw, leaving many more casualties to come."
If you read the LA Times, you were told none of this.
Instead, just the feel good story about petting a fox and getting a ride in a glass-bottomed boat.
What fine people we are!
The Los Angeles Times, it should be noted, has editors and reporters who are infatuated with the local angle afforded by Iraq war amputees in LA county.
Every other week or so, it publishes feel good stories with photos of Iraq war veterans fitted with new artificial legs, arms or both, littered with can-do quotes about how everyone who has been maimed is simply aching to get back to golfing, boxing, running, surfing, etc.
To read these stories is to almost come away with the idea that getting ground up in Iraq is nothing more inconveniencing than what happened to Luke Skywalker when Darth Vader cut off his hand with a light saber.
Nothing to it, folks!
We'll just fit you up with a new robot hand and not only won't you be able to tell the difference, neither will your friends and enemies.
You'll be back to waving your light saber in no time, mates! You'll be the new bionic woman or man, just like on network TV. It's only months away from reality! You'll think getting maimed in an explosion was the best thing that ever happened to ya!
The ragingly psychotic nation will take your legs and then send you back where you came from, onto the battlefield, if you're a child.
Now that's one helluva feel good story. Heck, it's even great for telling to your own kids, perferably right before bed time, especially if they've been bad.
Columbia Free Times article on the same.
"Whenever nature leaves a hole in [the minds of Americans], she generally plasters it over with a thick coat of self-conceit." -- Longfellow
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