I was just reading a bit about the 400 or so Iraqis that got turned into ground meat the last few days and realized something that seems to have been missed in this whole war discussion.
War IS bad news.
There is this strange refrain that keeps coming from the White House (and echoed in the echo chamber of wrong wing media) that somehow war is this glorious happy thing that helps people and make flowers (or democracy) grow.
It's not. It never has been.
War IS bad news.
The only good news that comes regarding War is when it is over. When the war in question is a war of choice, the end of said war is the only thing that could be said to be good news regarding it.
Those looking for "good news from Iraq" are deluding themselves. They are believers in the false and horrid god of militarism. They are the ones who see 400 charred, broken, and scattered bodies and say to themselves, "This is good. This is war. And I love it."
They are freakin' crazy. Try not to be one of them.