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I agree with all you say, Stephen. A scary hypocrisy at work in his words. And, up here, the commentators noted that no one said anything about perhaps reining in the oh-so-easy ownership of just about any firearm. Not that people can't get them up here in Canada, & also attack colleges & universities, as we know too well from Montreal. There are so many social/cultural factors that attach themselves to such behavior. But the neo-con (Maggie Thatcherist) concept that there is no such thing as society might just be one of the important ones.... Doug On 16-Apr-07, at 4:14 PM, Stephen Vincent wrote: > Even without the details of who and why, this is an absolute and > totally > scary tragedy. The heart goes out to all > > Frankly, hearing the cell phone footage of gun shots and screams, it's > impossible for me to look at it and think of the daily apprehensions > and > horrors that come to Baghdad and let alone daily life inside the walls > of > Iraq's other Cities. > > In the last hour I saw President Bush make a short address of shock and > sympathy for the families of the dead and wounded. > > My first thought was if the President could only also go before the > world > each time there are 32 Iraqis and American and other foreign soldiers > and > mercenary contractors that are killed in Iraq. He might begin to take > responsibility for and change the direction of this war that he and > his ilk > continue to 'visit' on that country. Instead - at least for American > soldiers - we do not even see the coffins of the dead. And the > others, they > are not even considered among the 'official' count. > > Woeful. > > Stephen Vincent > http://stephenvincent.net/blog/ > > Douglas Barbour 11655 - 72 Avenue NW Edmonton Ab T6G 0B9 (780) 436 3320 http://www.ualberta.ca/~dbarbour/ Latest book: Continuations (with Sheila E Murphy) http://www.uap.ualberta.ca/UAP.asp?LID=41&bookID=664 lipsynching awe all the way to the grave of the unknown onus: memory stutter; one smidgen, one scantling of thank. Dennis Lee