Death TV

About a week and a half ago, one of our F-16s in Iraq unloaded two 500 pound bombs into the building that sheltered the leader of Al-Qaeda in Iraq, Abu Mussab al-Zarqawi. Our government's news conferences displayed photos of his corpse like a trophy for what we accomplished. It was much like what we did for Saddam's boys, Uday and Qusay, after we annihilated them.

Yep, he's dead.

Yep, them too.

And we see this on the national news too. I wonder how parents explain that to their inquisitive children.

I mean I like that bad guys are dead. Yay. And I guess since our government is known to lie to us a bit, it is good that they have proof that they accomplished something, but it is still a bit weird.

And why is it that when you are watching the national evening news, bombings, murders, and other brutal, bloody events overseas are shown uncensored, even when innocents are involved? Here, our local news may be filled with murders and accidents, but they at least they use a tarp and body bags, especially when a doctor throws himself and his boys from a balcony to protest his rocky marriage, from Alton, Illinois, by the way.

I don't know what kind of precedents we are starting here. I mean I know we live in a sick world, but there is some gray area created here that I cannot figure out. Why is it okay to show the dead of others and not our own? If we do it out of respect, why not give them respect? If we act like it is so horrible that terrrorists show off the kidnapped and murdered, why do we show off their dead and allow our soldiers to have photos of torturing their people?

What a world, what a world.

Speaking of the dead, a woman from St. Peters, Missouri, which isn't too far from me in the STL, beat her dead chihuahua's breeder with the corpse of the dog. Apparently at 5:30 in the morning, she broke into the woman's home to get a new dog, since hers died so soon.

The breeder wrestled the woman out of her house to the front porch, where the woman then hit the breeder over the head numerous times with the dead puppy, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported, citing police.

This is what someone should have had a camera ready for and aired on TV. I'm sick of pointless war and terrorism.