US Soldier Killed in Blast in Northern Iraq (Mosul - Sunday)

[VolcanoJen]

http://wireservice.wired.com/wired/story.asp?section=Breaking&storyId=8462

It appears this soldier died Sunday... and the military announced it today.

April 05, 2004 3:19 a.m. ET

MOSUL, Iraq (Reuters) - A roadside bomb attack on a U.S. convoy in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul Sunday killed one American soldier and wounded another, a U.S. military spokesman said Monday.

The attack was on a main road in Mosul, 240 miles north of Baghdad. Since the U.S.-led invasion to oust Saddam Hussein last year, 420 American soldiers have been killed in action in Iraq.

Does this soldier bring the death count from Sunday up to 10? 11?

Awful...

[bluestateguy]

1. This may not be a popular thing to say right now...

but had those of you who voted for Nader in New Hampshire and Florida voted for Gore this would not have happened.

Al Gore opposed this war from the beginning.

Somebody has to say it, and I'm sorry if it dips into some people's bucket, but this has been a deadly 72 hours in Iraq, and it just has to be said.

[JackDragna]

2. How about..

..if Gore wouldn't have run a namby-pamby, pro-death penalty, pro-business doing whatever the hell it wants campaign that alienated his leftist base, causing Nader to be a political force in the first place, then this wouldn't have happened. And, of course, the brave Democratic party rolled over like a lap dog when it came to opposing the war on Iraq. Get over both Nader and yourself, for we Democrats bear a good bit of the blame.

[Spentastic]

4. Yes

And if loads of fucking idiots hadn't voted for Bush this wouldn't be happening either.

Do those who voted for Bush outnumber those who voted for Nader?

Even considering blaming those on the same side of the political spectrum for Gore's narrow victory strikes me as intellectually flawed.

[Crunchy Frog]

3. I believe it would make the Sunday death count

10 US soldiers and 11 total coalition soldiers. This is going by Lunaville's numbers. They don't have the latest death up yet.

It would make the total number of US soldiers dead since the start of the war 614, and the total number of coalition soldiers 716.

I honestly never expected that the American people would tolerate this level of casualties. It seems like no one even gives a damn.:(

[nadinbrzezinski]

5. It is not that

Most are not awware yet since we have a volunteer army... and many are still in denial.

[Crunchy Frog]

6. Well, they certainly noticed when

16 soldiers got killed in Somalia. Maybe that was just because it happened under Clinton's watch, so the media made a much bigger deal of it. I just don't see how 16 soldiers can be such a big deal, but 614 isn't. Is it just differences in media coverage?:shrug:

[nadinbrzezinski]

7. Yes the coffins have been hidden

by the bush administration

With Clnton we had the RW media in an orgasm of hate within HOURS.

Now we don't have that

Clinton also went ot Dover AFB whent the coffins came home

When was the last time Junoor went to DOver, or for that matter let the cameras in?

By the way, this is seen as an insult by the armed forces, but they cannot say this publicly due to the UCMJ. This means that we all need to be in their face with the numbers.

[RoyGBiv]

8. Death and Baseball

I'm on the verge of throwing my television into the highway.

CNN is especially irritating this morning. Their lead on Daybreak opened with "US soldier killed near Fallujah," and followed with commentary about the city being in "lock-down mode." The whole effect was to give the appearance of the soldier dying, then the lock-down. Not that this means a great deal in the long run, but it's part of a pattern of propagandizing.

Later into the story the reporter in Iraq did mention a more correct order of events, but this is sort of like burying the important story in the Life and Art section.

And then, after the story on Fallujah, we turn to baseball, and nave Bush on his way to St. Louis to throw out the a first pitch. The talking head beams a disgusting smile and offers her hopes that the President meets good weather, because he's "quite a baseball man." (Yeah, just your average guy, loves apple pie and baseball.)

I almost puked.

[Iceburg]

9. Set yourself free and block CNN from

entering your home. After the Letterman/KID fabrication incident last week I decided I could not longer allow CNN and its hazardous waste into my home. Their lies, distortion and propaganda were affecting my health. Its been 5 days now, and I have fully recovered. I uss my "CNN" time now to send letters to the 911 commission. While, I do miss Dobbs, but I can follow him from the net.

[teryang]

10. You could watch the 24 hour news channels

all day and only catch a few seconds coverage of these stories. Interesting how the deaths are reported for only one day intervals. Now they are down to reporting only one incident at a time.

The deaths and injuries should be reported on a weekly total basis. The big debate over the weekend was whether it was wrong to show abuse of corpses on television, rather than the significance of the five soldiers and four mercenaries being killed. This argument was debated without discussion of the additional eleven American soldiers killed while they were talking.

Talk about not connecting the dots. Deliberate obscurantism. The seminal trait of dictatorship.