Saddam: 21 days later

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Even as TV channels went expectedly berserk with repeated clips of dusky Indian Bollywood actress Shilpa Shetty's racial trauma on TV reality show Celebrity Big Brother, the media cacophony even threatening to jeopardize British PM Tony Blair's departing moments in 10, Downing Street, the tragic slaughtering of over 100 school-children in bomb attacks in Iraq went virtually unnoticed. That hardly makes for public attention and TRP ratings; perhaps if the entire school was annihilated into dust, then maybe the news would have at least featured behind the latest bulletin on cricket coach Greg Chappell's faltering vision. A fortnight after witnessing the repugnant, gruesome execution of Iraq's former dictator, the Wrangler cow-boy munching pretzels in his Texas ranch declared that the entire exercise was indeed unfortunate and had barbaric overtones. George Bush's first public angst and cosmetic anguish on the December 30 2006 reality TV show was perhaps too....