14 U.S. Soldiers Killed in past 3 Days in Iraq.

[Zinfandel]

Eighteen U.S. troops have been killed in Iraq during the past week.

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2005/05/24/international/i133431D96.DTL&sn=023&sc=391

Television won't show the American people Bush's war, just a mention of of it here and there...

I must of missed it, what's the reason again, we are killing people and our soldiers are dying in Iraq?

Oh yeah, to steal Iraq's oil, to build 14 military bases to control the regions oil, US companies (Dick Cheney's Halliburton, etc.) need to make money rebuilding what we blew up and destroyed, Weapons makers need to sell their weapons to make money and no better place then in a war.

Got it!

[xultar]

1. Shhhhhhhhhhhh! If no one talks about it, it didn't happen. Shhhhhhhhhh!

:hide:

[Bluebear]

3. Rob and Amber are getting married on TV tonight

lalalalalala

[Telly Savalas]

8. What's going on in the Micheal Jackson trial?

[lonestarnot]

2. Stop the War of Lies NOW!

[laura888]

4. For a media mesmerized by War...

...coverage of the war and casualties seems to be strangely absent.

If you watch the History Channel, for instance, 95% of their programming is about wars - WWII, especially. They also like to cover the details about how certain weapons were developed.

And yet, absolutely NO coverage of on-the-ground events in Iraq TODAY.

What's wrong with this picture?

[Bigmack]

5. I just heard 15...

they got another one.

Clusterfuck... complete with Goat Option!

[hiley]

6. Over 600 Iraqis have been killed in just over a month.

Violence continues in Iraq on a daily basis. A car bomb in central Baghdad killed at least nine Iraqis on Tuesday. Meanwhile the death toll from a string of attacks on Monday has risen to at least 54. Over 130 people were wounded. Over 600 Iraqis have been killed in just over a month.
The latest attacks came as American and Iraqi forces are conducting a joint offensive in Baghdad. The US military announced that over 420 people were arrested in just over 30 hours during the sweep dubbed "Operation Squeeze Play."

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AMY GOODMAN: Aaron Glantz in Fallujah. Your thoughts as you hear the report now back here at home and with the kind of images that we're getting in the United States.
AARON GLANTZ: One of the images that people who are watching on television just now saw, in addition to this rotting corpse in the front yard, is of the football stadium in Fallujah, which had to be turned into a mass graveyard, and that the whole grass of that football stadium had to be ripped up and replaced with graves. And this is, remember, in May of 2004, and since then America in November, which both Bush and Kerry agreed with, launched another massive bombing campaign where many innocent civilians were also killed.

I came back to America in May of 2004, and I found that people here in this country were not talking about Fallujah. They didn't know about Fallujah. People knew about the Abu Ghraib prison scandal because of the photos that were played on CBS News and published in The New Yorker magazine, but people had no idea about what happened in Fallujah, and this was the key issue on the ground in Iraq, the mass slaughter of civilians at the hands of U.S. military, all shown on satellite television to everyone throughout the country. And I almost felt I was listening earlier the comment that you just want to purge yourself and you just want to scream, you know, when you are in that situation. And, you know, I would come back and people thought I was somewhat extreme in my own statements and the statements that I played, like “the Americans are dogs” by that doctor, but you know, when you are in the situation, there's very little else that you can say.

snip---http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=05/05/24/1341241

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

7. Smothered by floweres thrown by grateful Iraqis?

Jubilant over all "the good" we're doing there? Or, were they killed by the "failed insurgency" that Hillary told us about?

They are cannon fodder for the politicians and capitalists protecting our "Vital national interests" (aka $$$$$).

[spanone]

9. Mission Accomplished......shame on him.

What was the purpose for Iraq, are these poor bastards better off than under Saddam? I don't think so.

[Bluebear]

10. kick