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12/08/2005:

"Normalizing Evil on the Local News"

...It's bad enough that Bush's monumentally illegal, immoral, and brazenly imperialist occupation of Iraq is actually quite bad for Andrew's country, not to mention the Iraqis and the cause of global peace. This miserable, mass-murderous conflict drains tens of billions of dollars from desperately needed domestic programs. It is helping fuel the nation's skyrocketing fiscal and trade deficits. It is encouraging extremist Islamic terrorism, worsening America's terrible image abroad, and further de-stabilizing a region of critical strategic
significance in the world economic and state system.

But the really despicable thing is the way local television news makes the maddening loss of American life in the criminal war on Iraq into a routine, acceptable, and practically banal fact of daily experience.
zmag.org