Thank goodness for the Wall Street Journal

I loved the June 10, 2005 article entitled "12,000 Heroes". It tells about the fact that the media carefully covers the casualty figures on a daily basis. They make estimates about the number of Iraqis killed by coalition action but they don't track or even try to estimate the number of Iraqis killed by insurgents.

Then it says the new Iraqi government is stepping in to fill the role that no western human rights group considers worthy enough to cover. The article goes on to say:

" Now the government of Iraq has gone and done that favor for itself. Iraqi Interior Minister Bayan Jabr released statistics last week showing that some 12,000 Iraqi civilians have been killed by insurgents in the last 18 months. Of these victims, the overwhelming majority have been Iraqi Shiites, indicating that what al Jazeera and friends call the "resistance against U.S. occupation" is in fact a jihadist and Baathist attack against the country's democratic government. "I have not seen any 'resistance,'" Mr. Jabr told the Washington Post. "There is terror, and all sides have agreed that anyone raising guns and killing Iraqis is a terrorist."

Too bad some of our own politicians can't show as much moral clarity. Too bad, too, that every time we magnify every U.S. misdeed in Iraq, real or fabricated, we turn our gaze from the real source of the country's misery."

If you want to read some "real" news I highly recommend you subscribe to the Wall Street Journal On-line addition.