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Mar. 9th, 2004 03:38 pmSomething which has been missing from press coverage of the Iraq debacle:
Think that even more people would ask all sorts of hard questions about why the administration misled the public about the need to go to war in Iraq if the media had these sort of images with every service person brought home killed in action? At present, the count is over 550 U.S. servicepeople, 58 from the U.K., 17 from Italy, 8 Spaniards, 5 Bulgarians, 2 Thais, and one each from Denmark, Estonia, Poland and Ukraine; not to mention numerous Iraqi civilians. And of those 551 or 552 (sources differ), 413 have died since "major combat operations" were declared over by Mr. Bush in his aircraft carrier stunt.
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 Military pallbearers carry the flag draped casket of 19 year old Pfc. Holly J. McGeogh, who was killed in Iraq, after a funeral at the St. Joseph Catholic Church in Wyandotte, Mich., Monday, Feb. 9, 2004. McGeogh was one of three people killed Jan. 31 by a roadside bomb about 27 miles south of Kirkuk. She was a light-truck mechanic assigned to Company A, 4th Forward Support Battalion, 4th Infantry Division, from Fort Hood, Texas. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio) |
Think that even more people would ask all sorts of hard questions about why the administration misled the public about the need to go to war in Iraq if the media had these sort of images with every service person brought home killed in action? At present, the count is over 550 U.S. servicepeople, 58 from the U.K., 17 from Italy, 8 Spaniards, 5 Bulgarians, 2 Thais, and one each from Denmark, Estonia, Poland and Ukraine; not to mention numerous Iraqi civilians. And of those 551 or 552 (sources differ), 413 have died since "major combat operations" were declared over by Mr. Bush in his aircraft carrier stunt.
