Great essay on a blog....
"The population of Iraq is about 24 million, just a tad more than the population of Texas. Imagine that in Texas, several acres in the center of the capital city, including the capitol building and government offices, are surrounded by a 12 foot high blast wall, and that citizens are forbidden to enter the zone to meet with their representatives or officials of state agencies, or to observe legislative or court proceedings. The state is occupied by 140,000 Russian soldiers, who travel in armored convoys and shoot 50 caliber automatic rifles at any vehicle that gets close to them. Hardly any of them speaks a word of English.
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On a typical Friday:
A car bomb kills 9 people at a Catholic church in Lubbock.
A Texas Ranger is killed and 3 are injured by a roadside bomb in Dallas.
A car bomb in Waco kills three civilians.
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Vladimir Putin complains constantly that the news media aren't covering all the good news from Texas."
http://healthvsmedicine.blogspot.com/2006/02/why-dont-they-tell-us-good-news.html