Why No Casualty Figures Anymore?

[heidiho]

Is it because we've turned the country over to the Iraqis?

I never hear a mention, yet each week on Stephanopolis' show, they
have the memoriam section and I'm always surprised to see so many who have died.

Don't these young people matter anymore?

[amber dog democrat]

1. Casualties are ugly.

We can't be polluting our beautiful minds with dead people, can we ?

[Lerkfish]

2. I see....dead people....

the administration believes (and to some degree, correctly) that preventing the good ol folks in the USA from seeing the Butcher's Bill will prevent us from accurately weighing the cost of Operation Bush's Folly in Iraq.

[SoCalDem]

3. Honey Pie...The war is sooooooo Last year...

The Iraqis are "in charge" now, so there are no more casualties..
Those dead soldiers in US uniforms..well you know how the desert is.. It's summertime.. and there are those mirages...

and all that black smoke by Najaf?? That's not smoke.. It's just "partly cloudy"..and it's the part over Najaf that's cloudy......


Anythiing that goes wrong from here on is.... well.. Chalabi's fault???...Kerry's fault????... Edwards' fault???... Teddy Kennedy's fault???

It's not George's fault.. he "passed that hot potato off"..He's got an election to campaign for.. can't be bothered with that "war stuff" (the dirty part of it anyway)..

[joefree1]

4. here you go

There have been 1,060 coalition deaths, 935 Americans, 64 Britons, six Bulgarians, one Dane, one Dutch, one Estonian, one Hungarian, 19 Italians, one Latvian, seven Poles, one Salvadoran, three Slovaks, 11 Spaniards, two Thai and seven Ukrainians, in the war in Iraq as of August 12, 2004 (Graphical breakdown of casualties). The list below is the names of the soldiers, Marines, airmen, sailors and Coast Guardsmen whose families have been notified of their deaths by each country's government. At least 6,276 U.S. troops have been wounded in action, according to the Pentagon. The Pentagon does not report the number of non-hostile wounded. This list is updated regularly.
http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2003/iraq/forces/casualties/

Iraq civilians deaths 11510 to 13483

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[NewJeffCT]

5. Orders from on high to bury the Iraq story

Rover has ordered Scaife, Black, Murdoch, et al, to keep Iraq off the front pages and away from the top of the hour newscasts...

I mean, just this past Sunday, the Tribune-controlled Hartford (CT) Courant did not have a mention of Iraq until page A11 despite this latest shooting match starting a few days before that. 10 pages of other news was more worthy than Iraq...

If Iraq is out of sight, it will soon be out of mind to Americans. I am guessing that most Americans think casualties have gone down since the transfer of power due to this Rove tactic, when the have actually spiked upwards.

[amber dog democrat]

6. and as the toll escaletes

and people start talking to each other - comparing notes , sharing insights
the Administration needs to be very careful with this tactic. If it blows up and the scope of the supressed news and the deceptions become more widely known the ground swell will be every bit as great as the opposition to the Vietnem War.

Iraq was not well planned.

This has the potential to backfire. We can not seem to win this war militarily.
I wonder where the point of realization begins that we have passed diminishing returns long, long ago.

[joefree1]

7. They can try

We're just weeks or even days from topping 1000 US deaths in Iraq (conservative figure).

There have been 1,060 coalition deaths, 935 Americans, 64 Britons, six Bulgarians, one Dane, one Dutch, one Estonian, one Hungarian, 19 Italians, one Latvian, seven Poles, one Salvadoran, three Slovaks, 11 Spaniards, two Thai and seven Ukrainians, in the war in Iraq as of August 12, 2004 (Graphical breakdown of casualties). The list below is the names of the soldiers, Marines, airmen, sailors and Coast Guardsmen whose families have been notified of their deaths by each country's government. At least 6,276 U.S. troops have been wounded in action, according to the Pentagon. The Pentagon does not report the number of non-hostile wounded. This list is updated regularly.
http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2003/iraq/forces/casualties/

Iraq civilians deaths 11510 to 13483


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[Maeve]

8. The UK Guardian noticed, too

Check out this thread in LBN

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x744893