5 more dead GIs yesterday. Yawn.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

The story on Yahoo has 4 small paragraphs concerning the deaths of the 5.

In the first attack Saturday around 1:40 p.m., a patrol hit a roadside bomb in the southern Dora neighborhood, killing a soldier from Task Force Baghdad, a statement said. Two others were wounded in that incident.

Later that evening, around 11 p.m., four Task Force Baghdad soldiers were killed when a roadside bomb exploded in southwestern Baghdad

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=514&e=3&u=/ap/20050731/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_soldiers_killed




The body counts, American and Iraqi, continue. All of these people, the GI's, the thousands of Iraqis, are now reduced to the indignity of being numbers on a scorecard.

But, the housing bubble is expanding nicely, millions are being made by speculators, the oil companies are getting further subsidies, magnetic ribbons are sold to procalaim "patriotism", and the politicians tell us how well things are going in Iraq and how the occupation must continue.

The silence of the media and the politicians is overwhelming.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

1. but they found a missing girl yesterday,

and she wasn't even blond, or vacationing in a coke& gambling club in Aruba! She was even a woman of color.

5 more dead? five sets of parents mourning. Five families destroyed. Five wasted lives, dead because of a politically based lie.

[Algorem]

2. Bush is very healthy though!

[marew]

9. Too bad it wasn't a MENTAL HEALTH evaluation!

which is a lot more important. I think most would agree psychopath and pathological liar might be included in the diagnosis!

[HysteryDiagnosis]

3. We need sumpin to keep the economy rollin.... when we finally

open up Iraq's economy (exclusively) to our goods and services (those that don't include death and mayhem) it will be even "better".


http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/19293/
The Handover That Wasn't

By Antonia Juhasz, Foreign Policy in Focus. Posted July 20, 2004.

[HamdenRice]

4. "That's the price of freedom"

I was sitting in a bar a few months ago and the barmaid is a rabid shrub fan who always has the bar tv tuned to Fox news. They report some horrible bombing in Iraq that kills scores, and she comments, "I guess that's the price of freedom." What's even more pathetic is that some fox news talking head had just said, "that's the price of freedom," and it's like she was robotically repeating what she had been taught.

[babylonsister]

6. Time to change either the channel, minds, or the bar.

I know, easier said than done.

[Ilene Dover]

7. The price of freedom

It is always worth wondering who gets to pay the price, and who gets the freedom.

It has been my experience that Fox is often on in bars, take-out places, etc.; anyone have a guess why that is the default setting? Perhaps those of us who would prefer not to be reminded of falafel and the "no-spin" zone should at least make our thoughts known to the proprietor?

[babylonsister]

10. Good point, Ilene, and welcome to DU! nt

[HamdenRice]

14. This is kind of a special case -- a head case

The bar owner is also republican, but forbids anything on tv except sports. When the cat's away, the mouse plays by putting on fox news.

Whenever she sees shrub on tv, she yells, "there's my MAN!" She says she likes him "because he's kind of stupid and so am I." I kid you not, that's what she says.

Strange thing is she is kind of a typical Long Island moderate republican on some issues, but she just is in love with shrub and has become brainwashed by fox.

I wonder is there some kind of subliminal thing going on with fox???

[PunkPop]

15. Those are the times I find it the most difficult to deal.

When I'm directly confronted by the vacuousness of the average Bushbot. These are defective people in so many respects.

[jbnow]

24. Well it's not original but

Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose.

Nothing, that's all we're offering Iraq.

We are killing them for nothing and dying for nothing.

[OrlandoGator]

5. Why would you trouble my beautiful mind with something like this?

How dare you.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

8. Update: The story has already disappeared. Replaced by

the immensely important story of the astronauts taking out trash and loading supplies.

[hatrack]

21. Nauseating

This country deserves whatever corner of hell is reserved for ignorant, arrogant people with non-existent attention spans.

[xchrom]

11. it's my hope that g.i.'s will come to realize

it's the left that cares about their welfare.

the right merely wishes to waste them for a rich man's dream of money, property and goods and services.

it's america's greatest shame that we continue to let these fellow citizens die for a lie.

[JohnyCanuck]

12. As the noted philanthropist and humanitarian Henry Kissinger

explained it, the military are "dumb, stupid animals" to be used as pawns.

In Haig's presence, Kissinger referred pointedly to military men as "dumb, stupid animals to be used" as pawns for foreign policy. Kissinger often took up a post outside the doorway to Haig's office and dressed him down in front of the secretaries for alleged acts of incompetence with which Haig was not even remotely involved. Once when the Air Force was authorized to resume bombing of North Vietnam, the planes did not fly on certain days because of bad weather. Kissinger assailed Haig. He complained bitterly that the generals had been screamin for the limits to be taken off but that now their pilots were afraid to go up in a little fog. The country needed generals who could win battles, Kissinger said, not good briefers like Haig.

http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2003/06/266114.shtml

[Bucky]

25. Why didn't Haig clean his clock?

I've got mixed feelings about Haig, but he's got a thread of honor in him. Kissinger is just plain evil.

[gizmo1979]

13. There was a good article in

USA Today on fri. It followed a marine corporal who was on his 3rd tour in Iraq.I don't think the GI'S care much about politics. They are burned out and scared.The story went on to explain how only a handful of marines took the 20,000 dollar reenlistment bonus,the corporal saying my life is worth more than 20,000 dollars.I think the politics will come later they know who sent them to hell 3 times,they'll never forget!

[Lannes]

16. They are starting to cover a man murdered on a cruise ship

As a replacement for the Holloway story.Bet they've got a dozen of these on standy for every bad revelation that comes out about this administration.

[BiggJawn]

17. My next door neighbor asked "What are those numbers on your window?"

So I told him "That's the number of our young people who DIED for Bush's fuck-up trying to get money for College"

He said "I got mixed feelings about all that over there..."

I said "I don't. we should have NEVER gone to Iraq, and besides, where's Osama?"

Bet you he takes notice of the tally as it increases now.

Another mind informed.

[JohnyCanuck]

18. Where's Osama? That's an easy one, Osama bin Forgotten. n/t

[AnotherMother4Peace]

19. The real news is the weather - it's hot - Now, that's a headliner

[lonestarnot]

20. Actually wasn't the number 6?

[KharmaTrain]

22. But The Corporate Media Says They're Doing A Great Job...

Yep, heard that this morning on Whorie Kurtz's tree stand. What a joke! The old strawman that since the corporate media's getting attacked on not covering the "good things" while others claiming they're not covering the killings, bombings and other evils of this invasions hard enough. Thus by beltway pychobabble, since both sides are pissed, they're doing a great, balanced job.

:puke:

One journalist (didn't get his name) who had done a report with "insurgents" (I still don't know WTF that is) and was lambasted on how his report was "helping the enemy". To his credit, he stood up and said the "insurgent" story is getting out in other media, it's time the Americans saw what the rest of the world is seeing.

This ugly invasion won't matter until enough people have to attend a funeral or see the mangled body or mind of a loved one this war is creating. Sadly, it's not gonna be the kids of the rich corporate media types and politicians who face that fate.

[dhinojosa]

23. Excellent post.....and...

you are now being quoted in my signature. That kicked ass.