Breslin: In case we all forgot, Americans are still dying in Iraq

[RamboLiberal]

http://www.newsday.com/news/columnists/ny-nybres064842623aug06,0,3519669,print.column

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We cannot list the entire number of dead in Iraq, for 2,583 Americans have been lost so far. And counting every day.

There also have been 19,270 wounded, with such injuries as legs blown off, young men with shattered backs being placed in wheelchairs for the rest of their lives, genitals lost, brains numbed by flying ball bearings, faces left in half by flames.

The television and newspaper coverage of this has been weak, lazy, fearful. What there is of it, you watch and read with clenched teeth.

Once, on HBO, they showed a young soldier on the table and the whine of a saw sounded as it went through the bone of his leg being amputated. This should be on day and night.

The obligation of reporting is to tell and tell and tell of the deaths and great injuries of young Americans sent to die by old draft dodgers in Washington.

BTW, Baghdad ER is being released on Aug 29th on DVD.

[Captain Hilts]

1. Love you, Jimmy, but they're 'being killed', not 'dying'. nt