The Children Are Still Dying: Violence is Not News

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2. I've been there

I spent 13 months in Iraq as an Infantry Platoon Leader. The one this that appauled me more than the violence I saw in Iraq is that next to none of it is actually shown to the American people. If people saw immages over and over again of the mangled women and children that this war produces instead of watching American Idol or dancing with the stars (or even "stars earn stripes&quot , support for the wars in the middle east would have vanished a lot faster than it did. There was a reason why Goerge W. banned the media publication of coffins comming home from Iraq and Afghanistan - and it really wasn't to protect the dignity of the families and military dead.