4 US soldiers dead, and they're forgotten.
4 US soldier's deaths in Iraq were announced today. 4 in one day, and it's nowhere.
AP, AFP, Reuters? Nope. Not in the top 20 stories.
NYTimes? Nope. WaPo? Nope.
I even did a Google News search on "Iraq" looking for a headline. Nothing.
The only mention I found was on CNN (8th paragraph.)
You know I don't cuss often here, but that's total bullshit.
These soldiers were fathers and sons and husbands and brothers and friends and uncles. They leave behind families with holes in them. Wives and children wondering what they're going to do, where they're going to live.
Mothers frozen at the sink, remembering. Fathers crying in the garage.
These were people goddamnit. They went out, and they died in service to their country. They are not 8th paragraph, buried in some off the front page story.
(They're talking about Jon Benet Ramsey on TV right now.)
AP, AFP, Reuters? Nope. Not in the top 20 stories.
NYTimes? Nope. WaPo? Nope.
I even did a Google News search on "Iraq" looking for a headline. Nothing.
The only mention I found was on CNN (8th paragraph.)
Also on Monday, a U.S. soldier was killed when his vehicle was struck by a roadside bomb north of Baghdad, the military said. The military also reported that two Marines and one sailor were killed Sunday during military operations in Iraq's Anbar province.
You know I don't cuss often here, but that's total bullshit.
These soldiers were fathers and sons and husbands and brothers and friends and uncles. They leave behind families with holes in them. Wives and children wondering what they're going to do, where they're going to live.
Mothers frozen at the sink, remembering. Fathers crying in the garage.
These were people goddamnit. They went out, and they died in service to their country. They are not 8th paragraph, buried in some off the front page story.
(They're talking about Jon Benet Ramsey on TV right now.)
posted by mikevotes at
4:48 PM
4 Comments:
Jon Benet!? Mother puss-bucket! That story is 10 f*cking years old. Move on...get back to the story that is 3 years in the running!
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Anonymous, at 7:13 PM
That's gratitude for you. Go off and die fighting for a lie and when your time comes you're pre-empted by the latest media distraction. "Hey! Whaddya think I bought the magnetic ribbon for! Now shut up, they're doin' more on JonBenet."
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Lew Scannon, at 8:28 PM
You bracketed this post with two great pics. The government and the media have colluded in sanitizing wars ever since Grenada. The difference this time around is blogs like yours. They can't control what blogs publish - at least, not yet.
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abi, at 8:37 PM
Kvatch, the story is 1 day old. American soldiers died. That used to be news.
Lew, It's my opinion that people in the main don't want to hear about Iraq anymore. We're losing, and they don't want to hear it. That's one of the reasons the distractions have legs.
Abi, thanks, I've got a file full of pictures and I pull them out by mood. And, they have sanitized wars, but I keep thinking what have we become when Americans dying is no longer news.
Mike
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mikevotes, at 9:01 PM
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