Reply #73: I'll be perfectly honest and answer your question.

[crispini]

I have friends and family in London. I have longstanding ties to the UK that go way back. I am having an emotional reaction right now over the people and places that I know. And it disgusts me to come onto DU and see people whose first thought is, "How will this affect the American political situation?" I find it disgusting and indescribably self centered. Forty dead and the first thing somebody can do is post stuff this tinfoil shit in GD. They're posting MIHOP theories over THIS and it's THE SAME DAY! Can't they wait until tomorrow to post MIHOP theories?

When I hear about Iraqi dead or Americann war dead, every death I hear of, I try to take a moment to think of their life and death. But I do not have as strong a reaction because I do not have intimate family ties and a strong cultural connection to Iraq. That's just the way it is.