Boy they sure removed Iraq from all the news

[blues90]

Now we are supposed to believe everything there is just fine and dandy ?

Part of this in my opinion is all this far to soon hype of these elections and the media getting their talking points .

Not one damn thing is better in Iraq , not one thing yet the subject is now for the most part burried .

You know damn well that these people in New Orleans will olso vanish once again since the holidays are over , what a gift they got watching their homes being destroyed , screw these corporate land stealers , I hope no one buys the new housing or rents it , it certainly won't be the poor people who once had homes there .

Perhaps they need to know the land is filled with poison and chemicals , maybe that will deter their greed if they even are aware .

[gateley]

1. Another mission accomplished. nt

[fenriswolf]

2. i was thinking about your point and I have an idea

every day have a half hour tv show celebrating the life of someone who had died that day. in that half hour you connect and empathize with this person. Then in the last five minutes they tell you how that person died and if they have media of it show it. Then just right before the credits show everyone else both US and iraqi that has died that day.

[blues90]

22. great idea except no one would watch it , people don't want reality

Other than these reality shows , but death in a war , that's a different story .

[shraby]

3. Could be because one of the dolls on CNN

let it slip the other day that there was only one reporter in Iraq now.

[Hydra]

4. They're preparing to draw down

so they've shut the news up about it.

Lots of people here suspected Rove was going to do this- draw the forces down to 60,000 or something and say that things are all better there in time for the election, then redeploy the troops afterward.

I really have to wonder what troops they're talking about. Only the insane or uninformed would dare join an army that forces you to stay past your contract date and changes the rules on the fly.

[dave123williams]

5. Yeah, and the MSM is super quiet about this story today, too:

http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/12/21/asia/pakistan.php

For some reason politically motivated suicide bomb attacks against Musharraf's political opposition, that kill scores of people, aren't newsworthy in the States. Nothing about it anywhere on CNN, FOX, anywhere...

Wonder why? I guess it's not important enough. How about another story on Edward's hair? Hillary's boobs? Obama's blackness? THAT stuff is clearly important...

[razzzleberry]

6. fewer US combat fatalities --> less news

http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/ops/iraq_casualties.htm

[stillcool]

8. What was ...

the December 8-11 Operation Iron Reeper all about?

[Stuart G]

7. So, what are we mad at now?

The insurance companies, a terrific source of anger..let's go after them..
and forget who cut deals with them and their drug dealing pill popping friends..the Pharma companies..

..sure..take the light off of the 3 to five hundred thousand deaths in Iraq..forget the torture..the lies. ..yes.
.......go out and shop this weekend,,enjoy...

[Bitwit1234]

9. Some of the dem sites list the military killed during the week.

but you are correct, nothing on MSM buh told they not to and you know they want that chance to keep their head up bush ass.

[razzzleberry]

17. how many combat deaths this week? .n/t

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[TomInTib]

12. May all of your wishes come true.

I, for one, will do whatever I can to facilitate same.

[DemGa]

13. I don't see why you think you'll get banned for posting those links

Maybe though, you could get banned for calling people "shits."

[Cerridwen]

14. Nice JFK quote - have you read the entire speech?

Here's the link for you to do so.

The quote you put up is taken out of context; I suggest you put the context back in. JFK talked of a time of hope, of change, of coming together of disparate nations and peoples, of a quest for world peace; for if we do not, we risk destroying ourselves and our planet.

Finally, to those nations who would make themselves our adversary, we offer not a pledge but a request: that both sides begin anew the quest for peace, before the dark powers of destruction unleashed by science engulf all humanity in planned or accidental self-destruction.

We dare not tempt them with weakness. For only when our arms are sufficient beyond doubt can we be certain beyond doubt that they will never be employed.

But neither can two great and powerful groups of nations take comfort from our present course—both sides overburdened by the cost of modern weapons, both rightly alarmed by the steady spread of the deadly atom, yet both racing to alter that uncertain balance of terror that stays the hand of mankind's final war.

So let us begin anew—remembering on both sides that civility is not a sign of weakness, and sincerity is always subject to proof. Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.

[gratuitous]

15. Care to discuss it?

Or are you satisfied with calling names and asking to be banned? I'll bet that plays real well in some circles. You could probably almost call yourself a hero, Dem_Wit.

[Raine]

21. Heh, your name

says more about you than it does does anything else, I guess that wasn't your intent but it shows how "dem" you are. :silly:

[ThomWV]

11. 3,897 ... it will be thirty nine hundred by Christmas.

[blues90]

16. And these are not real numbers , they're pentagon numbers

There was talk before the end of 2006 that it would reach 3,000 now it's close to 4,000 .

It's such a swill of lies , what's needed is the families who have lost anyone in these two insane occupations to get a list going that reflects the deaths and injured so there is a real number of losses .

Wounded means to me an arm or leg missing and they have admitted they don't count the deaths unless they die on the ground in Iraq not the ones who die in Germany .

Then what we need is a real media who insists on telling the truth and get rid of the fluff stories . Of course that is a dead issue now days , real media , got to be kidding .

[Disturbed]

18. A War in Iraq? There is no War. There is a US Occupation.

This US Occupation will continue for many years, no matter what happens with the '08 Election.


The Repug & Dem Leaders want to maintain the US Occupation.
They want to keep the Fiasco going to finalize that Oil Deal.. The Repugs & Dems are afraid that they would be blamed if Iraq goes down the tubes, the Oil Deal goes to China & Iran gains major control in the ME. That wouldn't be good for the '08 Election for either parties.

[TomInTib]

20. Exactly.

Anyone who believes the official casualty count (including icasualties.com) is delusional.

I believe there is a hard, cruel reason they move the aggrieved families off-base so quicckly.

[UTUSN]

19. Why, umm... that's because the surge is WORKING!1 Yaas, THAT's the ticket!1 n/t

[NashVegas]

23. I Think Kevin Martin Made a Quid Pro Quo Deal

Media shuts up about Iraq, and in return, cross-ownership rules get loosened.