Body Counts

Five more American service people have been killed in Iraq, bringing the total to 1794, and starting to approach the 1800 level. These five were killed in two seperate incidents. But, our goverment lets us know that eleven insurgents died at the very same time. Now this is an interesting comparison. After all, we are "ahead" in the count game.

The Secretary of Defense in the early part of this war (oh, so very long ago) stated that they would not report enemy deaths and there would be no "body count" as there had been in Vietnam. After all, during Vietnam, Gen. Westmorland and his crew gave body counts that proved to be fictitious, and only were used to support the military's view of the war. By doing this, he and the Secretary of Defense only gave the president glowing reports that were absolutely phoney. Something like the song from the Broadway show "The Wiz",that said "Don't bring me no bad news."

Why should we believe, or even care how many on the other side died? Think how wonderful it would have been if this ridiculousw war had never been started by Bush and company and all sixteen would still be alive. Now that truly would have been "supporting our service men and women."

Don't We Care?

As usual, I start my day by perusing the Washington Post, New York Times, Times of London, Christian Science Monitor, Miami Herald, Chicago Tribune, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, and Newsday. This morning I notice that not one of these papers had an article (at least on the front page) about the war in Iraq. It is almost like a non-entity. People are dying and being wounded on an everyday basis (including Americans) and not one of these papers found it newsworthy enough to put on the front page. Are they (or we) that unconcerned?