Iraq's aftershocks felt in Alabama

[nhboy]

"As candidates prepare for Super Tuesday, one of the most crucial days in the US presidential nomination race, Al Jazeera spoke to two American families for whom the Iraq war remains a personal, as well as a political, priority.

Opinion polls in the US suggest the top issue for voters choosing Republican and Democratic candidates for the presidential election is now the economy.

Concerns about the war in Iraq have apparently been eclipsed by the slowdown in economic growth, spiralling health costs, and the subprime mortgage crisis.

But it is too simple to say that the issues of the military struggle in Iraq, and what George Bush, the US president, calls the "war or terror", have disappeared. "

Al Jazeera English - News - Iraq's Aftershocks Felt In Alabama

 

[vraiblonde]

Concerns about the war in Iraq have apparently been eclipsed by the slowdown in economic growth, spiralling health costs, and the subprime mortgage crisis.

Isn't it clever how the media did that - diverted our attention and made us think that we were all going to die so we'd forget about the war? Next thing you know, the homeless will make a cameo appearance - they've been in retirement since Bill Clinton took office.

 

[cwo_ghwebb]

Gosh, another top news source to rank right up there with DU/Daily Kooks/Alterwierd!

What does this guy do when he leaves the house and reality smacks him upside the head?