[Marxism] Re: 'Our troops' and theirs

["Eli Stephens" <elishastephens@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Nicholas Kristof tabulated the casualties of the war in the New
> York Times on Nov 19: "... at a cost so far of 400
> American lives and (one study suggests) at least 11,000 Iraqi
> lives".(1) I was struck by the obvious racism.

Actually, this article was amazing in that it mentioned ANY Iraqi dead;
that's something that is not only rare, it's virtually non-existent.

And, what is just as striking is that 93 soldiers from "coalition"
countries, including British, Spanish, Italians, and others, have been
killed, and even THEY are virtually never mentioned in the press. Racism IS
no doubt a factor in ignoring Iraqi deaths, but as this fact illustrates,
possibly a bigger factor is the unbelievable jingoism of the American press,
combined with the need of the government and ruling class to minimize as
much as possible the numbers of "our" dead resulting from this invasion and
occupation, so as to minimize opposition from the public.

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