The Body Count

I found an interesting website today, called www.iraqbodycount.org, that provides a body count of civilians killed in Iraq since the illegal 2003 invasion by the United States of America. It's amazing how violence in Iraq have taken a back bench in the American media now that American troops are no longer the target. In CNN today, out of seventy five stories I browsed through about the Middle East, one of them was about violence in Iraq, and it was about an American teacher that was killed by a Kurdish student. There was not one story on MSNBC or Fox News. There have been deaths every day for the past week in Iraq, and the corporate controlled media could care less. The complete lack of responsibility for the situation that was created by an American military action is nothing short of appalling. This is exactly why I support and follow independent media, notably Zero Hedge and Democracy Now, and follow mainstream media sources (that are MUCH less biased) like Al-Jazeera and BBC. I'll throw in a note here: The US government hates Al-Jazeera, and has even gone as far as shooting a missile into their offices in Kabul in 2001.