How come we do not see what is happening in Iraq?

Question

I seems that people just want to ignore the war and talk about money and drug addicts....Paris Hilton , Lindsay Lohan Etc.......

Answer 1

Didn't the baseball players ask President Bush about if they should still play baseball after 9/11? The answer to that is yes he did.

Rather than saying, "Hey, let's take a few day to mourn this tragedy", he said "PLAY BALL!!!!!"

We're here in America and are very immune to what is going on in other places in the world.

We're taught to be this way because we think that we are right and the rest of the world must be wrong.

America could never be wrong or be the cause of any wars now, could it?

We mourn and cherish what is closest to us. And what is closest to us is movies, celebrities, drug problems and anything else that affects us personally.

We have become a nation that just wants to live it up. We don't want to hear the truth. We want to hear what we want to hear.

There's an old saying--it's not important until it gets to you. This saying is so true.

Go back to WW II. Japanese Americans were rounded up and put into concentration camps. If you weren't Japanese, you probably didn't care or feared that if you voiced your opinion, you might be considered one of them.

But hey, I'm not Japanese, so why should it matter to me?

We don't see what is happening in Iraq because we choose to be blind to it. It doesn't directly affect us........yet. Wait though. For the time when martial law is declared and it starts to affect you, then you will finally cry out for help. Only problem will be is that it's to late to get it by then.

Answer 2

We see whats going on in Iraq, unfortunately, our President does not see that. I can give a flying rats @$$ about the Paris Hilton's, Lohans, Spears, etc. I can care less and that is why I don't make it a point to read up on them, or buy those magazines or whatever. Good day.

Answer 3

Iraq will implode; 1000's of 1000's will die; the insurgency could have a company grip of the country and its infrastructure, consisting of the tens of millions of oil wells that Iraq has, which interprets into tens of millions of greenbacks for weapons, education and suicide bombers to launch against international places like Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, the UAE, Quatar and at last, Europe and the U. S.. human beings think of that terrorism became into born after 9/11; what correct to the Achille Lauro? What approximately Lockerbie? What approximately Princess Gate? What correct to the bloodbath on the Airport in Rome? Terrorism isn't something new; many civilians have died in terrorist assaults and enable's settle for it; taking flight from Iraq won't take us decrease back to 9/10/01; Al-Qaeda proved that we are only as susceptible as the different u . s . a . interior the international and that they're going to attempt it returned... is an argument of time. They gave us a bloody nostril on 9/11, no longer they want to behead us all and that they gained't supply up in basic terms because of the fact they beat us out of Iraq. study slightly historic previous correct to the Muslim conquests; the torching of the Library of Alexandria and evens like that.

Answer 4

I agree with you. And to that end I have set up my blog. To give the American public a chance to see more than just the bad, without Paris or Lindsay interupting the important things.

Shortly after my last return from the War on Terror, I sat in a bar and listened to patrons upset about the death of a football player during practice. Eventually, the bartender asked my opinion. I learned that the American public has no idea what this war is about, who our enemy is, what it plans to do, nor the honor and service of our servicemen. They seem to care more over the affairs of celebrities than the fight for our freedoms and protection.

http://blog.360.yahoo.com/blog-DfkctJU7dK5B7LcNROoyVQ--;_ylt=AiNXZokI1G6zowgYXNnJS9msAOJ3?cq=1

No politics. Only the truth. The Ground Truth from a combat veteran who has been there.

Answer 5

People do see what is going on in Iraq they just choose to ignore it because there is no one they know serving or are oblivious to what goes on in the other side of the world .

Answer 6

This has been a problem from the very beginning. Only the bad is shown, never the good or never the progress. This has been a media war from the beginning.

Answer 7

the world saw it coming, but ask yourself this: how much news do you read/watch from Britain, Canada, Australia, France, Spain, Mexico.

It was widely discussed, but there is an interesting thing in the U.S. that others are more likely to see -- free speech is sort-of suspended in a crisis. While we have free speech at all times in my country, in the U.S., after 9/11, there was very little criticism of Bush.

Therefore, people were unable to question whether he was doing the right thing. They had to agree with him.

I believe in free speech, and I think Americans should too. One way to achieve that is to read lots of media from outside the U.S.
www.cbc.ca
www.bbc.co.uk
www.lemonde.fr (run it through a translater if you don't speak french).

Answer 8

It's called media censorship. The government censors the media from broadcasting certain issues and allows us to only see what we want to see.

Answer 9

Gee,

Richard, are you not getting to watch it on tv 24 - 7

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You really must write your congressman about this.

Assuming you are old enough to vote??

Answer 10

the only time you will here anything on the major news networks is when something horrible happens over their to stir up antiwar protests.