Military's Advice to Reporters: 2,000 Dead in Iraq 'Not a Milestone'

[Ernesto]

Oh no, of course not. We reach 2000 deaths in an unnecessary war Quite often, I'm sure.........

U.S. Army Lt. Col. Steve Boylan, director of the force's combined press center, wrote in an e-mail to reporters, "I ask that when you report on the events, take a moment to think about the effects on the families and those serving in Iraq. The 2,000 service members killed in Iraq supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom is not a milestone. It is an artificial mark on the wall set by individuals or groups with specific agendas and ulterior motives."


http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1001351291

[Danmel]

1. "An artificial mark on the wall?"

I'd like him to say tht to the parents of these dead men and women. There is something seriously wrong with these people, there really is.

[Canuckistanian]

2. Nothing to see here. Move along.

So if you pay attention to soldiers dying, you have "an agenda"?

[Neil Lisst]

If you really want someone to feel it ...

...suggest they do this:

Watch a clock tick off each second for 33 minutes and 20 seconds.

Each tick represents one US soldier dead in Iraq the past 30 months.

Sit and watch 2000 ticks of a clock, and appreciate how many have died for this bunch of liars.

[billybob537]

3. Time for Amurika

to pull it's head out of it's ass. And I don't know of any other people who can be so pissed, when they realize just how badly they have been USED.

[Cessna Invesco Palin]

4. Right. It's not a milestone.

It's just a number. Like ZERO.

[kcwayne]

5. Hey jarhead, it was specific agendas and ulterior motives

that are the reason these 2000 are dead. And if agendas and ulterior motives are not applied posthaste, you will be saying the same thing when the "artifical mark" gets to 20,000, 30,000, etc.

[expatriot]

6. Reporting a statistic is unpatriotic. nt geesh.

[liberal N proud]

7. It is only soldiers, only sons and daughters, husbands, fathers

They are not significant to the bu$h regime or the military leaders.
The spin these creeps put on anything is sick, just sick!

Bring them home now!

[Mizmoon]

8. the stats might be lower if there was more body armor

and less talk coming out of the Pentagon.

[Neil Lisst]

9. They died for record Oil profits.

And short term Bush struts.

[BRLIB]

10. And the "reporters" are eating it up! Any talking points to

support the bush crime family!

I just heard that line on ABC Radio "News", which interrupts Air America here every half hour.

Ann Compton seriously is a worthless brown-nosed bush bootlicker.

[liberal N proud]

11. Email response from repuke why I asked why 2K?

For WHAT ???? Look at the photo on the front page of today's Plain Dealer. See those Iraqis with the ink-stained finger tips giving the victory sign ? THAT'S why we gave our lives, so others could have the same freedoms we enjoy and to protect those freedoms here in the homeland. Freedom is never free but is usually worth the price that is paid. In 2003, over 17,000 American lives were lost in this country as a result of alcohol-related traffic accidents - 17,000 American lives lost in just ONE year due to our love of BOOZE (Source - MADD statistics on their website) !!!! Now THAT is truly a senseless loss of life - WHERE is your OUTRAGE ???? 2,000 American lives lost in 3 years to protect and promote freedom versus 17,000 American lives lost in ONE year (2003) for the love of booze ! Your sense of sorrow for the loss of American lives is admirable, but if the senseless loss of American lives is truly the driver of your outrage, then your outrage is sadly misdirected. Or is the life of a soldier somehow worth more than the life of an innocent run down by a drunk driver ?



All he could do was change the subject to something other than the lives lost in a illegal war. Implying that I wasn't outraged over drunk driving.

[Bridget Burke]

12. The reason for the invasion was not "Freedom for Iraq"

(As stated in the article.) It was Saddam's WMD's. Most of us knew it was bogus, but that WAS the official excuse. And today's top story emphasizes that WMD were a cynical lie.

Since 2000 is only a "mark on the wall"--how long will that wall be?

One excuse I heard this AM: Some of the deaths were accidents or suicide. Hey, the percentage of suicides in Iraq was not much higher than the percentage in the US!