Originally posted by Malacasta
[url]How would you really feel about sending your child to a school in Iraq? The Iraqi's seem to be staying away in droves according to the report below, only 30% of children attend school (with female children's attendance decreasing rapidly).
I'm going to wager that as a communist, you're pretty huge on public education (correct me if I'm wrong, though). I see it as a bonus that only 30 percent of the kids are educated by the public system. I hope that in Iraq, public schools are the last things parents are resorting to when getting their kids educated.

Originally posted by Salimar
The only fact I cannot get over in the whole Iraq matter is that an estimated 200,000 Iraqi people have died (1% of the population) from the beginning of the war, a war that started without the necessary intelligence and for reasons that have been proven wrong. What do you say to the relatives of these dead people. Hey, you got mobile phones now!!?
In short: yes. That's what you say to them. More to the point, "you're free, now." Throughout history men have time and time again been willing to risk their lives for freedom from oppression - especially when that very oppression is responsible for taking lives of their loved ones. But getting more specific, what have all these 200,000 people died as a result of? You said "They should provide information for comparison like when they compare the number of mobile phones now with the past ..." How many peopled died in that period under Saddam's rule?

Now I feel like we're getting into the should-we-have-attacked-Iraq argument. Look, we did. The point of this post is things aren't NEARLY as bad there as the mainstream media would have you believe. And no, I don't buy the crap about death selling. Good news sells, too. You can take that from someone who's been there. I've been writing news stories for five years. There is a bias out there. Not a conspiracy, but a genuine political bias that seems to have every media outlet marching in lockstep. That's the most frightening thing of all.