the news this morning.

i'm looking at a picture (i'm told) of a british ship loaded with "tons" of humanitarian aid in the port of umm qasr (sp?). and then about how this is all about the iraqi people, really & truly....

and all this is overlapped w/ pictures of

people searching thru the rubble of their homes

a beautiful, bald little girl--apparently from cancer

a child w/ a smudged face looking forward angrily as people take pictures of him

people walking down a street w/ half the buildings destroyed....

...oh & this aid is mentioned in the same breath as i'm told about another massive bombing campaign being launched last night....almost as an afterthought.

they need to decide how they want to play this.
either tell the story lopsided & consistently so

or stop trying to put a cute face on it to make people feel better.

it's making me ill.