What Howard should say

in any daily remarks. . .he should interrupt any questions and start with the total number of soldiers killed in Iraq and ask for a moment of silence.   He should also ask for prayers for the numbers of Iraqi men, women, and children killed that day.  

Both of these numbers are reduced to either (in the case of US soldiers) reading the names on Nightline or (in the case of Iraqis) total ignorance.   The former is a "tribute" to American lives snuffed out for no good reason, as if a moment of mention of nationwide t.v. could even begin to describe and/or make up for their lives and what they have given up.  The latter is even worse - because these bodies aren't even worthy of an official "count" or recognition. These Iraqis have mothers, fathers and children, too.

Stop the goddam press before they start asking you about your so-called "gaffes", Howard.  Make 'em acknowledge and recognize that this immoral and unjust war isn't just numbers, but  LIVES, with wives and parents and babies.

Make it real, Howard, make it real.

eileen from OH