The first hour of Talk of the Nation was devoted to "Was the War in Iraq Worth It?" I stopped listening to TOTN regularly when Juan Williams did his stint as moderator. Sadly, it has not improved. The first speaker was an `unbiased' military historian (he was okay), then the pro-war Max Boot (utterly disgusting tripe), and then the anti-war Prof. Meersheimer (sp? who did a pretty good job pointing out the insanity of it all). But for the introduction where it was mentioned that at least 16,000 Iraqis had died, there was essentially no further mention of the Iraqi dead.
A couple of references to dead civilians but no mention of the study published in the Lancet that there were likely to have been 100,000 additional Iraqi deaths due to our invasion (the margin of error in the study was large: 8,000 to 200,000 IIRC) and this study was completed prior to last fall's attack on Fallujah and deaths from the previous attack on Fallujah had been purposefully left out of the study for fear of skewing the results. REPEAT: No one mentioned that it is quite possible that 100,000 Iraqis are dead as a result of this war! And we wonder what is fueling the insurgency. Unbelievable, NPR is a shell of its former self, the spread of Media Inc. continues to baffle, astound, and dishearten me. The lack of objective news is the rot at the heart of our body politic. What can be done?