who does god like best?

i of course have so many things to blog to you about, but i was gonna get my pants done first, before i told you all about speed dating, or s, or any of the other things on the slip of paper in my back pocket. but then i was reading the newspaper while eating dinner and came across this article buried inside: Iraqi deaths hit record in July and it made me furious. especially when thinking about the headline a few pages before, which was Army enlists more low-scorers 'Best, brightest' not enough to meet goal. there are all these memorials for soldiers, printing their pictures and names and stuff- but the fact still remains that there are iraqi civilians dying and not even giving the dignity of going to the morgue. civilians means regular people- humans, just like americans. people who have cousins and birthday parties. people who read books and eat vegetables. children. women who blog. people just like me. people who live in a city not so very different than chicago, a city that my country is systematically destroying- without heed to the people who inhabit it. those who are surviving int the ruins. war is so ungainly, such a clumsy and awkward way to atain anything. surprisingly enough, we are failing miserably. we're working our way through the smart and willing, now we're shipping the un-clever and willing, one can only assume that we will then go to town on the unwiling. unless, of course, we run out of iraqis, first. it's like soldiers are so honored and nobel, a higher class of people, as opposed to arabs, who are lower. which reminds me of this article, "christians like israel" which talks about israel putting ads on fox news to get christian support. i think it would be hilarious if it wasn't so serious. the christians, they never liked the jews much, but compared to arabs, wow! best friends! i haven't been following all the israel/ lebanon stuff very closely, and i'm sure it's agonisingly two sided. but i love how the way to reach the hearts of the american people, who are apparently the evangelical christians, is through tv comercials.