To watch CNN today is to ask "what mass killing of Iraqis in a mosque". Same on FoxNews. Not mentioned directly and you have to look elsewhere for details. Much talk about 'test of wills' and US military 'firmness' and efforts to 'control' and other such empty noises. But the killing of dozens of women and children in a reckless assault on a city three times the size of Bellingham is not reported.

Gee - a missile into a mosque. A dozen US Marines killed yesterday. My right-wing friends think we can solve this with resolve and firmness and showing we will not back down. So a missile into mosque. Well, that just added another million Iraqis to the those we need to be firm with. Hell, we may have to destroy the towns in order to bring democracy to Iraq.

In any society there is 8% who will elect a dead dog to public office or support the most immoral actions of any government official. The big news corporations make money if people are compelled to follow news. Put these two facts together and you have our present insanity of conducting a war against a country that is literally half way around the world from us and that never threatened us.

We will reap what we sow. Our right-wing friends will blame everyone but themselves and their own idiocy. Many Nazi fanatics went to their deaths blaming the German people for defeat in WWII. Don't expect the true believers in American imperial goals to ever see the light.

A missile into a mosque. We are nuts. Of course Americans will be targeted around the world. Like German officers in occupied France, we will be confused about why the natives are upset with us. We won't understand. Don't they realize we are the good guys?