Even we are becoming somewhat used to Iraq War casualties

[bluestateguy]

Over the last 24 hours I have posted 2 LBN stories about 2 US soldiers killed in action. They both generated negligible numbers of replies. They used to generate several dozen. LBN stories about car bombings in Iraq now do not generate the number of replies that they used to either. Unless many soldiers are killed at once, or many civilians are killed at once, the LBN posting usually drops into the archives relatively quickly.

I say this not to criticize the people at this forum, as I am probably guilty of it too, but just to point out that even diehard opponents of the war such as us are getting used to the daily death toll. It seems to have lost much of its shock value.

[knowbody0]

1. it should be headline news

grieving families, flagged caskets, little boys saluting their fathers one last time.
thankyou for your posts re the KIA. i see them, my heart aches, there are no words.

[MichiganVote]

2. I don't feel shocked at the numbers anymore b/c this pentagon

and this administration categorically refuse to do a goddamn thing about the lack of adequate armor and weaponry for the US soldiers. After WWII the military and the civilian corp. were not slackers.

If all it took for our troops to have an even chance of survival were a copy of fucking Harry Potter we and they would be in good shape.

As it is...they will die today, tomorrow and the next day.

[shadowknows69]

3. Not used to it

just the opposite. can't endure reading about them anymore. makes me feel helpless in a way that threatens my very sanity.

[JohnnyRingo]

4. It's always good to remember...

Two Billion Dollars
100 wounded
15 dead

Every week!

[teknomanzer]

5. Sadly such news is just too common now...

Every morning on the way to work I would turn on the local PBS radio station WLRN, mostly because they have the best traffic report and of course this is accompanied by the morning news and market report. It got to the point where even before the news came on I would find myself saying "a car bomb exploded in or near Baghdad today killing several civilians and a handful of soldiers..." because that was pretty much going to sum up of the report from Iraq that day. And I kid you not, EVERY morning was very nearly the same. I was beginning to feel like I was stuck in time or something, like Bill Murray in Groundhog Day.

Unfortunately there is a limit on how often you can express your outrage before it begins to wear you down. After a while you just want to turn the radio off because you knew you this was going to happen before the invasion and nobody listened to you then, and this is certainly not situation you can gloat over and say, "I told you so."

What options are you left with but to acknowledge that its happening and go on with your day after having repeatedly expressed you anger until you choke... How many times must I say "Damn them for this." Its like I'm shouting at a storm.

[bribri16]

6. What the hell are we doing over there anyway? We are not stopping

the suicide bombings. One truck bomb killed 98 today and one soldier who was wounded later died...probably not counted in the counts confessed by the Pentagon. What the hell are we doing? Why the hell don't we just come home...I bet there would be fewer car bombs and at least none of our soldiers would be killed or maimed.

[Trevelyan]

7. Thank You for Reminding Us BlueStateGuy

I was very moved by the thread with the photos released by the Pentagon of the US mostly very, very young people dead in the illegal war. The DUers compassion moved me very much and I wonder if any wavering FReepers might come over to the light.

I downloaded many of the photos and made flyers that I leave around stores and on my yahoo group http://groups.yahoo.com/group/StopTheNewWorldOrder/

I haven't kept up with the writing as I planned but there are so many Yahoo Groups devoted to Impeaching Bush and decimating information on what Rep. Conyers, Sen. Kennedy, Boxer and Waxman, etc. are doing down in the trenches and they need out support.

Rep. Conyers blog when I checked 2 days ago doesn't have the 100+ or so bloggers but I think maybe they are having some trouble with the software. Though I did not have trouble posting on Conyers' Blog someone at Bradblog had been trying to find out why she couldn't post.

Conyers' deserves all our support for his courage so try to blog a Thank You now and again. I keep thinking of the Resistance in many countries in WWII, it will take a lot of "blood, sweat and tears..." to bring down this horrible Bush Crime Family machine and the ones behind them Carlyle, Halliburton, Bilderberg, the network of secret societies.

The only real weapon is to keep telling the truth, even about DINOS Democrats in Name Only like Kerry and Clinton. The World Tribune on Iraq has a document of 10 pages HOW TO HELP AMERICANS PREVENT BUSH'S WAR CRIMES. I need to visit their site again because I read that some members of the 82 Airbourne testified about the war crimes they were forced to commit in Fallujah. If you were 19 or 20 or even older and your commanding officer told you to do something and you knew that you might end up tortured in the Brig or with a bullet in your back - even Seymour Hersh recommended a young man who was agonized over committing war crimes - Hersh said to him to keep quiet while he was in the military because otherwise, the young soldier would end up with a bullet in his back.

Please visit real veterans sites to see what is being done to them by Bushco and join Veterans for Common Sense and sign their petitions and get involved with an activist groups you can - MOTHERS AGAINST THE DRAFT, etc. Action is a cure for despair.:cry: :patriot:

[Skittles]

8. I can assure you I am deeply affected

I may not always reply but I am deeply affected