Illusions

How weird. Surreal. I go from the Iraq Body Count webpage directly to the Jigzone puzzle page. Maybe that is the reason that this terrible war has failed to connect with most of us. Our lives haven’t been disrupted; not like a ‘real war’ would change things. Our big worries are the cost of gas and the loss of equity value in our houses. The deaths, military and civilian, are abstract. And it is meant to be that way. This administration doesn’t want us to see the horror of it. There are no photos of coffins arriving back in America, no shots of grieving families. It is very much like a stage production and the Decider decides what we can see and what we won’t see.