Insurgents attack Abu Graib: 18 American casualties!!

[senseandsensibility]

This is posted in LBN, but not everyone goes there. I know it's a big surprise, but the "elections" don't seem to have solved all our problems in Iraq.:sarcasm:

Now, if the corporate media would just cover this. The Pope's passing is an important historical event, but not to the exclusion of everything else. Americans continue to die everyday! Wake up, sheeple!

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7366857

[Dave Sund]

1. Not dead

"Casualties," meaning killed or wounded. Still terrible.

[senseandsensibility]

11. Fixed it!

Thanks!

[xultar]

2. 18 Casualties don't mean DEATH right? Casualities means injuries

right?

[Renew Deal]

10. Right. Injuries or deaths

can be casualties. It means incapacitated.

[thecrow]

16. They should change the name of that

injured or dead seems to me to be a lot more serious than "Casual"

[hippiepunk]

3. Is the pope worth that much more than

18 people to the msm?

[BeatleBoot]

4. But That's Okay, Because Bush Went To Mass This Evening.

:sarcasm:

[n2mark]

5. I heard it was 18 Amer. soldiers injured

Not making excuses, but let's be careful.

[Leilani]

6. I've been surfing channels looking for an update

But it's 24hr Pope is dead.

Thanks for posting this.

Terri Shiavo died & she got 2 weeks of coverage

The Pope dies & he'll get 2 weeks of coverage

18 Americans die in Iraq...what coverage?

[gratuitous]

7. The military was guardedly optimistic

When March was over, the military lost just a little more than one person a day, and they had their lowest monthly total of fatalities in many months.

The insurgents may not have shot quite all of their wad yet.

[swag]

8. Hi. "Casualty" is not equal to "fatality."

Also, the exclamation point in the subject line almost looks as though "18 Americans dead" is something to celebrate.

I hate the war in Iraq too, but dead soldiers is not something I'm going to rejoice over.

[senseandsensibility]

13. Thanks for the advice.

I know that deaths in Iraq are not something to rejoice over. It's an attention getting device. I would have thought that was obvious.

[Moderator]

9. Please edit inaccurate headline

Thank you.

[LynnTheDem]

12. This isn't LBN; we have to match headlines now in GD, too?

[Moderator]

14. No, but it was false info.

[LynnTheDem]

15. Ahhh, gotcha...I thought "oh shit!" coz I did a cpl GD posts yesterday,

and didn't match headlines, LOL!