A Look at U.S. Military Deaths in Iraq (freeped rating)

[Career Prole]

82 damned votes and a one and a half star average rating. :grr:

Go to the article and rate this up please?

(edited to fix gigantic link)

As of Thursday, June 2, 2005, at least 1,667 members of the U.S. military have died since the beginning of the Iraq war in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count. At least 1,274 died as a result of hostile action, according to the Defense Department. The figures include four military civilians.

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Since May 1, 2003, when President Bush declared that major combat operations in Iraq had ended, 1,529 U.S. military members have died, according to AP's count. That includes at least 1,165 deaths resulting from hostile action, according to the military's numbers.

The latest deaths reported by the military:

Two soldiers were killed Wednesday near Ramadi, Iraq
The latest identifications reported by the military:

Army Staff Sgt. Virgil R. Case, 37, Mountain Home, Idaho; died Wednesday in Kirkuk, Iraq, of non-combat injuries; assigned to the Army National Guard's 145th Support Battalion, 116th Brigade Combat Team, Mountain Home, Idaho.

Army Sgt. 1st Class Steven M. Langmack, 33, Seattle; killed by small arms fire Tuesday in Qaim, Iraq; assigned to Headquarters, U.S. Army Special Operations Command, Fort Bragg, N.C.

http://tinyurl.com/cnpk8

[Starfury]

1. 2nd version of story?

Looks like this is the same story...only 14 votes so far.
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050522/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_us_deaths

[Career Prole]

2. I had to Tiny URL the link because I noticed it wasn't working

My link shows it at 118 votes now...same rating. :(

[arcane1]

3. weird.. same story, but 2 different polls?

the other link has 23 votes, and a 4.5 rating...

your link has 190 votes and a 1.5 rating

what's up with that? :shrug:

[DemonFighterLives]

4. Done

:kick:

[teryang]

5. Bad news from Iraq ratings consistently low

This phenomenom is so consistent that it must be systematically manipulated. I don't even think its freepers. They don't read that much. I think its the government.

[davhill]

6. If they are told on Free Republic to freep a story they will do so

Even without reading it.

[dArKeR]

7. Glad I'm not the only one who's noticed this. EVERY story concerning

Iraq has one to two "one star" votes and it's only been out a few minutes. Make you wonder what the WhoreLand Security black box is doing. The black box connected to every ISP.

We can start taking screen images of these ratings then email them off to Air America. Maybe even get a RICO against the Media and NSA.

PS. The other thing I've noticed are these 200 to 600 "one star" vote stories... click on the associated pic. Have you noticed? These corresponding pic will have 3 to 10 votes. Very STRANGE!

[Career Prole]

9. It gets stranger still...

Check the economy stories in the business section and it's the same deal...all rated (weighted?) to favor shrub.

[dArKeR]

11. This happened in the Kerry/aWol election too. Most everyone on the DU

alerted/saw that. Kerry's stories were 500 - 2000 "5 star". For a long period, months before the election. As the election drew nearer, about 6 weeks before, the yahoo stories on Kerry suddenly went 2000 "1 star". It happened overnight, I noticed it, as others did, and we all posted it on the DU. This continued until about one week before the election, like aWol, NSA, CIA, FBI... started to run out of money to pay the email banks in India and China. Kerry went into a big lead in Star ratings. (But it was 1 to 5 back then.) The aWol wins the election. I'm telling ya, I've got a sixth sense. I can feel it in my soul. The GOP is based on election fraud. That's the way they get 10% - 20% of their votes. Fraud from the news media, corporations who make the voting machines, paying off local officials with Lobbist trips around the world. Golf in Ireland anyone?

[leftofthedial]

14. It's not just freepers

it's a concerted DOD psyops program

[teryang]

18. I suspect the same thing

Anything goes, "we're at war!"

[The Jacobin]

8. 215 votes - 2 star average

done

[Spiffarino]

10. The Freeps don't care that soldiers are dying?

That's news? Freepers love war - just as long as they aren't the ones fighting and dying.

[dArKeR]

12. NSA Black Box on ISP freeped rating - Friday June 3 7AM Pacific Time

Death Toll at 825 Since New Iraq Gov'
550 votes 2.3 Star.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050603/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_050603114851;_ylt=AoiZDr_3XazLWYwhn6lLw_ZX6GMA;_ylu=X3oDMTBiMW04NW9mBHNlYwMlJVRPUCUl

With associated pic 6 votes 5 Star.

Don't you guys get tired of me being right all the time? LOL!! I'd really like to be a reporter!

[Career Prole]

13. that'd be correct all the time!

Right? Never!
Ya can't be right and correct! :D

[dArKeR]

15. NEW - 37 Min on yahoo - 610 votes - about 2.3 Star

Gunmen Kill City Official in Kirkuk

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050603/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_050603114855;_ylt=Ah2rUGAJ1efqzBMJrHfP4Y5X6GMA;_ylu=X3oDMTBiMW04NW9mBHNlYwMlJVRPUCUl

The DU needs to start a Topic to track just this!

[dArKeR]

16. New - 263 votes - about 1.3 - Release Abu Ghraib Videos, Photos

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050603/ap_on_ Star

[Jack Rabbit]

17. Freeped?

I wouldn't say this is being freeped unless it were getting a lot more votes that were forcing it to the lower end.

It looks more to me like very few people are interested in raw figures.