23,416 US Casualties in Iraq War- 21 US Troops Killed Since Saturday

[Jcrowley]

23,416 US Casualties in Iraq War

21 GIs killed since Saturday
Campaign Against Sadr City Looms

By Juan Cole

10/04/06 "Information Clearing House" -- - Al-Zaman reports that 21 US troops have been killed in Iraq since Saturday, with 8 killed on Monday alone.

As of Tuesday, 23,416 US troops have been wounded or killed in the Iraq War.

If you really want to gauge the toll of the Iraq War on the American public, you have to read the local newspapers.

For instance the Dorchester Reporter.

And
For instance The Enterprise at SouthofBoston.com.. Sgt. Fontaine is still determined to be a firefighter. This looks like a worthy place to donate.

It seems pretty obvious that the Department of Defense is using flimsy excuses for not revealing the nature and severity of the wounds GIs receive.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15217.htm

[onecent]

1. I hate this crap..God Dammit.....Bring 'em HOME

[MrModerate]

2. In between Rulergate and Denialgate . . .

How can you expect anyone to pay attention to soldiers getting whacked? That's *so* last week.

[Jcrowley]

4. A few thoughts on that

The going line is that we can keep our attentions on more than one thing. That is not only true but essential. However as one does this it should be prioritized in a way that reflects degree of importance and I am simply not convinced that Foleygate merits such a disproportionate degree of attention even admitting the amazing and appalling story that it is.

[MrModerate]

5. Agreed. I also think that the IMgate scandal will . . .

Die pretty quickly in the sense of and end to hysterical minute-by-minute updates, logoed bulletins, and round tables of shouting heads sniping at each other to overexpress their disgust. It has, however, become one of the threads of this election's tawdry tapestry, and we'll certainly have that banner continuously waved in our faces -- for a few more weeks, at least.

Woodwardgate is with us for the long haul, even though it will also fall off the media's radar screens and be swept up with all the other election-related chafalfah. However, it is a signpost marking the inevitable decline of Bush's credibility and will probably be more cited 10 years from now than other books with similarly shocking revelations about this administrations malfeasances, misfeasances, and nonfeasances. I'm afraid that the Woodward/Bush trilogy will become the "standard work" for people trying to figure this whole mess out, starting 20 years or so from now. I haven't read more than excerpts from any of the volumes, but by report, that's going to do a disservice to history.

But you can't always choose your signposts.

However, regardless of what happens with Foley, Woodward, or Bush, the soldiers will still be uselessly dead, the maimed will remain pointlessly maimed, the tens of thousands of unnecessarily dead Iraqis (and the hundreds of thousands more to come?) will never walk the earth again, and THAT's the important thing that happened this week.

[partylessinOhio]

3. Why?

Foley disturbs the Fristians but WAR does not? Insanity.