SICKENING

Truly sickening.

I have had the pleasure of becoming e-acquainted with an independent film producer who recently travelled to Baghdad to get an up close look at the US Soldiers.

He was not a supporter of OIF. But as he says

...It's also interesting how your perspective changes--how you have one big reality check--when someone tries to kill you.

More, it would be idiotic to leave Iraq prematurely. We should leave it better than we found it...

What a great pleasure to know one who has maintained his intellectual honesty.

We've discussed what I believe to be a serious bias in the media many many times here, including today. Generally I have referred to the English speaking media.

Media are structured differently in other parts of the world. For instance the BBC in Britain is funded by the TV owning citizens of that country via a TV tax.

Here in Germany much of the media is also state funded. The government of Germany pays the bills.

So - what is it about all this that is sickening?

Simply this. When looking for media outlets that might be interested in paying my producer friend to get an up close look at US Soldiers in Iraq...this particular German TV Network that I will call XYZ was not interested.

However, the producer went on to say...XYZ

"...offered me relatively large sums to do a
doc(umentary) on "racist American" soldiers."

Sickening.

Our so-called ally wants to pay this man to go to Iraq and provide content to support the thesis that US Soldiers are racist.

Germany. Home of Kristallnacht. Home of Dachau. Home to about a jillion white people and a handful of minorities.

I'm going home.