And this is precisely what I mean by a lack of objectivity coming from the conservitive mouths today. Effectively there exists an infamous viewpoint in America which cries over a group of innocent Israelis, for example, blown up by some terrorist human bomb, but doesn't shed one tear if a missfired US missle drops smack down on a civilian appartment building in downtown Bagdad. Same tragedy, two different ways to assess it. The same could be said about the horrible state of Palestinian lives caused by Israel and by US unwavering support of the Zionist regime against Palestinian legitimacy and nation-state recognition. Few are crying about this in America.
Fundamentalist religious regimes (Iran) and dictatorships (Saddam Iraq) are the worst form of governments out there, however if the US want's to earn a credible voice in these highly strategic zones (oil), then it needs to put an end to the masacre in Iraq and its own hypocricy.
For how can a nation that self-proclaims to be the beacon of civility and human rights and a democratic model to be exported around the world (by force if necessary), at the same time drops bombs on civilian sites? To say that "sorry, it wasn't our intention, just an accident" blah, blah, blah, frankly isn't quite enough to make up for the murders and destroyed family lives the "mistake" has caused.
American propaganda in the media (both consevative and liberal alike) keeps the US people in the dark about the tragedy that has taken place in Iraq for years, which it's war machine has caused. To do otherwise, that is actually inform the American people, would undermine the very notion of moral superiority upon which Americans arrogantly presume gives them the God given right (Bush actually infered this) to decide the fates of entire nations as convenience or problematics makes fit. And we remember that the CIA once supplied Saddam Hussein with gas bombs against Iran in the 80's, which the bloody dictator then used against his own people. And it is the same presumption of moral supperiority which the government (and to a certain extent Americans themselves) has made into an alibi to excuse for what the military has really caused for hundreds of thousands of people around the world (most of whom have nothing to do with the terrorist web to be dismantled): namely, death and suffering.
It's time to put an end to the destruction and stop the killing and get back to diplomacy. It's time for more objectivity.