Steroids in Sports Or Suicides In Soldiers?

I get alrerts all the time on a lot of subjects. This really got me! I received this one from the Washington Post, yet never got one on the hearing being done in Washington over the suicides of our soldiers and veterans. Imagine that! I never would have imagined that steroid use in sports players would be more important than our soldiers and veterans killing themselves needlessly. Just goes to show where our priorities in this country are.

The care and needs of our veterans as well as active deployed forces today are not even the number one issue facing voters according to recent polls. We have two occupations going on right now and the majority of the country seem to not even want to have the slightest clue what is going on in either of them. This make no sense to me at all because when the subject of Iraq comes up, everyone seems to have an opinion of it, but really has nothing to base that opinion on. This is evident when you read the poll data and the impression of events in Iraq as well as Afghanistan, never seem to match the news reports. Ambivalence is easy to twist when passion may be there but there is no knowledge to go with it.

I don't know if it is the case of the media not reporting on the importance of Iraq and Afghanistan and the lives of our veterans, or it's a case of the media just reporting on what the public is showing interest in. Whatever the reason, our troops and veterans are the ones suffering while sports players are the ones getting all the attention.

Kathie Costos
Namguardianangel@aol.com


News Alert 3:47 p.m. ET Thursday, December 13, 2007

VIDEO: MLB Commissioner on Mitchell Report, 4:30 ET Commissioner Bud Selig will respond to report on use of steroids and performance-enhancing drugs. To view live streaming video of this event on the Web (courtesy of Comcast), go to http://letters.washingtonpost.com/WBRH016F1841EE30A48E73787BC7D0.