Late, last night, the Iraq War hit the 18 year mark. Did any US outlet really register that fact?
Visit THE PROGRESSIVE this morning and find nothing about Iraq. THE NATION? Their big story is Dave Zirin's latest bad column on the NFL. Along with that (the main story on the main page of the alleged political weekly), there are 37 other stories. Guess what? Not one of those stories is about the Iraq War. 20 stories on the main page of IN THESE TIMES' website. How many are about Iraq? Zero.
DEMOCRACY NOW! hailed itself from the start as "the war and peace report." If you missed it, Goody Whore now calls itself "the quarantine report." Good because, despite having a full hour on Friday, they didn't bother to cover Iraq.
MINT NEWS PRESS can't seem to find the Iraq War.
COUNTERPUNCH and CONSORTIUM NEWS do the best -- COUNTERPUNCH offers Vincent Emanuele's "The Iraq War: 18 Years Later" while CONSORTIUM serves up Ann Wright's "18 Years Ago Today the US War on Iraq Began."
COMMON DREAMS does have two pieces, yes. Only one is worth reading. They offer Jared Keyel's "After 30 Years of War Against Iraq, Americans Must Make Reparations" and the idiotic "On 18th Anniversary of Iraq Invasion, Activists Renew Calls for US Reparations."
No, you f**king dabblers, Iraq does not need reparations. Not until they have a functioning government. The officials now fleece the government, austerity measures are being imposed upon the people. You do not give a corrupt government money for the people. It will never get to the people. All handing over money will do is buy off your own guilt, it's not helping the people of Iraq. Stop being such idiots and start calling for real and meaningful measures for Iraq -- like US troops out. And if that means the US-imposed puppet government collapses, so be it.
Worst of all is ANTIWAR.COM.
Not only is their no essay or blog entry on the Iraq War, there's not even a section for Iraq today.
Margaret Griffith's daily roundup of violence in Iraq? It appears under "Middle East." On the 18th anniversary of the ongoing Iraq War, Iraq doesn't even rate its own section.
Why does ANTIWAR.COM even exist now? It might as well have died with Justin Raimondo if this is the level of 'coverage' we can expect from it now. That's hideous.
It is awful that THE NATION serves up click bait instead of addressing real news like the Iraq War. But it hypocritical for a site calling itself ANTIWAR.COM to fail to seriously note the 18th anniversary of an ongoing war.
This illegal war continues and it does so because a lot of lazy asses are in charge of media outlets in the US.
