Another 14 American and 388 Iraqu lives wasted in Bush's War. When will this madness end?

advertising executive?

who the fuck cares?
(sorry, that is uber-insenstive to the friends and family of... who? ah yes, Hal Riney. My sincere apologies if any of them are reading this.)

my grandfather, who fought in WWII and was one of the best people ever to grace this earth, died several years ago, and i don't recall george stephanoplousoulpslisous giving him a moment of silence. yes, mention the americans who have died in this illegal clusterfuck, but why do we have to hear about those who are richer and more powerful? are we supposed to care b/c they are somehow better than us? honoring the rich, famous, and powerful is so 1990.

...maybe i am just being a dick about this. RIP Hal, RIP.

woodguy @ 1:

Another 14 American and 388 Iraqu lives wasted in Bush's War. When will this madness end?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eir3-omjMVQ

bushisaliar @ 6:

how's that surge working out now ??

I'm getting zipper marks.

I was moved and saddened by the news of the death of Dith Pran. He was the
Cambodian journalist who risked his life many times over to tell the story of the
horror to his country.

His deeds are inspiring. This past year I was shocked at the killing of Benazar Bhutto as
well. Whatever may be said about her spotty past, one cannot deny that it took
real and huge courage for her to return to Pakistan and try to serve her country.
That courage goes very far, in me, to make up for her faults.

Dith Pran's story was very inspiring. I was saddened as well to see that his
country, Dr. Ngor was murdered on the streets of LA by a teenage gang gunman.
I think that is troubling.

Courage is a rare and beautiful thing.

I just love how the segment included two advertisements for Ronald Reagan's foreign policy.

Iran-Contra gets a C for effort!

ysbaddaden @ 7:

bushisaliar @ 6:

how's that surge working out now ??

I'm getting zipper marks.

Hahahah! Yousobad ;-}

L.A. Confidential @ 10:

Drop this segment.

No. This segment is important to people. How would you feel if we ran this segment every week and the day we decide to stop doing it is the day you get notice that your son has died in Iraq?

It is incumbent upon ALL of us to know how many deaths are occurring, even if they're played down by the White House.

And Samson, Hal Riney (whose ad shop is in my hometown of San Francisco) was an advertising genius and really at the forefront of advertising for years and years. For better or worse, his influence is pretty far flung in American culture. No disrespect is intended towards your grandfather. My grandmother was the first woman in her family to go to college and she had a career as an urban planner at a time when most women didn't work. She was my first feminist influence and an amazing woman. She died a couple of months ago and George S. didn't mention her either.

richard widmark was a good actor! i never saw a movie he made that wasnt good! the old breeds dieing out! to bad ! halls of montazuma was a gret flick!!!!!!!!!!!!!

...oh yeah, and "the surge is working". It's still killing.

Although Stephanopoulos may note the weekly deaths of U.S. soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan together, the way you wrote this post, you unfortunately conflated the U.S. soldiers killed in Iraq and Afghanistan, but then compounded that error by listing the total (4010) only for Iraq. At least 418 U.S. soldiers have been killed in Afghanistan on top of the 4010 killed thus far in Iraq. It's also important not to conflate the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, as the Bush administration likes to do. One was waged in direct response to the 9/11 attacks by Al Qaeda, who were being hosted and supported in Afghanistan by the Taliban, and was supported by the rest of the world as a result. The other was a phony war of choice and a distraction from the real war on Al Qaeda in Afghanistan, which, amazingly, has sucked 80% of the resources and troops (and, sadly, the casualties) from that real war, and which has caused us to be losing the real war as a result.

Rusty Shackleford @ 22:

tyree @ 17:

richard widmark was a good actor! i never saw a movie he made that wasnt good! the old breeds dieing out! to bad ! halls of montazuma was a gret flick!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hey Tyree, you might enjoy this article about Widmark. It sounds like he was a really cool guy.

In Joseph Mankiewicz's No Way Out (1950) he gave a typical, menacing account of a bigoted petty criminal so moved by the death of his brother in hospital that he tries to blame the black doctor (Sidney Poitier in his first film) and in so doing nearly provokes a race riot. Widmark, impeccably liberal on the subject of race in his private life, apologised to Poitier at the end of every filming session.
Such a great human being, R.I.P.