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NNN0LHI

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Thu Aug-19-04 06:03 AM
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US soldier killed in Sadr City

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/afp/20040819/wl_mideast_afp/iraq_us_toll&cid=1514&ncid=1473

BAGHDAD (AFP) - A US soldier was killed in the Baghdad stronghold of Shiite Muslim militia leader Moqtada Sadr.

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leftchick

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Thu Aug-19-04 06:15 AM
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1. so is that 6 Dead in the last 24 hours?

I wish we had real news here in AmeriKa...

RIP... :(

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0007

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Thu Aug-19-04 06:59 AM
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4. I just wish we were living in the real America everyone talks about

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llmart

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Thu Aug-19-04 06:18 AM
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2. The article lies.....

and says 705 soldiers have been killed in Iraq. How misleading!

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Thu Aug-19-04 06:58 AM
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3. What about. . .

a number for US troops lost in all this "intense" fighting in Najaf? Now I haven't done a search on Lexus/Nexus, but it strikes me that I haven't heard of one casualty in these two weeks of fighting. In the above cited article, the soldier died in Sadr city. OK, stupid question after all we've been through for the last three years, but why the hell isn't the media asking who's been hurt or killed?

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NNN0LHI

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Thu Aug-19-04 07:02 AM
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5. Media is too busy "reporting" the latest "news" of Kobe and MJ

Welcome to DU Rangefinder.

Don

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rfkrocks

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Thu Aug-19-04 07:13 AM
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6. "we retort- you comply" American media

In america troops are "GI" (government issue)-like Ms Rhodes says-expendable and forgettable-if we don't report their names now the dead will be easier to forget-we don't want to think about consequences in this country anymore-it is a disease that causes us to pile up massive debt and cut taxes because someone else has to pay for it, we consume ,in the SUV culture. oil and then expect it to be cheap and we go to war with minimal debate and hide the dead. Sad times.

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Aidoneus

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Thu Aug-19-04 07:15 AM
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7. officially, 10 US occupation forces have died there since it began again

Edited on Thu Aug-19-04 07:16 AM by Aidoneus

I am told that there are hundreds that were seen injured to some varying degree (counted personally with her own eyes or gathered from other eyewitnesses), but official figures in this are unavailable. News reports, which only sporadically mention non-fatal hits, suggest at the least dozens of injured from the fighting.

The "media" are well trained and do what they're told.

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