Friday, June 09, 2006

Be safe - Move to Iraq

Okay, this post will be terse and to the point. Why would somebody move to Iraq to be safe? There is a War going on there! All I ever hear about Iraq is that the country falling apart. People are getting blown up by IEDs everywhere they turn. The country is in Chaos! I get the feeling that an innocent family can hardly walk to the grocery store without risking their lives of being blown up by a car bomb.

If that is your feeling too, then you better stop listening to the mainstream press. I got this figure directly from here - Rush Limbaugh. But I wanted to repost it here in case the link became invalid soon. I don't know where Rush got the graphic itself, but the statistics are publicly available. Just a note, the statistics are based on a time period completely coinciding with the war in Iraq. Also, its based on an entire year (2004 - 2005), so don't just think that they picked the best possible month for their sample data.This is what I mean, and everybody else means, when they say that the mainstream media is so out of touch with reality and they don't present you with a honest, objective, picture of reality like they claim. Nobody is free from biasness and nobody can be perfectly objective. The mainstream press attempts to give you an unbiased, perfectly objective news story. In doing so, they have implicitly assume that they have the ability to offer perfectly objective analysis of current events or else they are intentionally distorting the Truth, calling it the Truth, to persuade millions of people that they think are stupid (you and me) of their own personal worldview. As for me, I refuse to listen to them. I prefer to listen to people who are not afraid to tell me who they are and what they believe