After the invasion of Iraq, I had trouble sleeping. I would wake up at around 4 every morning and go to my computer to find out how many people had been killed that day in Iraq. CNN would be first and they always had the numbers of Americans killed on the front page of their website.
Sometimes it was just one, sometimes two. But I would sit there and cry for the unnecessary loss of life on both sides.
Three and a half years later, the killing, dying, maiming has steadily increased.
Yesterday 9 soldiers were killed in Iraq, 5 on Monday.
from
http://icasualties.org/...
02-Oct-2006 9 | US: 7 | UK: 1 | Other: 0
US NAME NOT RELEASED YET Baghdad (northern part) Hostile - hostile fire - small arms fire
US NAME NOT RELEASED YET Baghdad (northwest part) Hostile - hostile fire - IED attack
US NAME NOT RELEASED YET Baghdad (northwest part) Hostile - hostile fire - IED attack
US NAME NOT RELEASED YET Baghdad (northwest part) Hostile - hostile fire - IED attack
US NAME NOT RELEASED YET Baghdad (northwest part) Hostile - hostile fire - IED attack
US NAME NOT RELEASED YET Baghdad (southwest of) Hostile - hostile fire - small arms fire
US NAME NOT RELEASED YET Baghdad Hostile - hostile fire - small arms fire
UK NAME NOT RELEASED YET Basra - Basrah Hostile - hostile fire - indirect fire
01-Oct-2006 5 | US: 5 | UK: 0 | Other: 0
US NAME NOT RELEASED YET Al Anbar Province Hostile - hostile fire
US NAME NOT RELEASED YET Baghdad (west of) Hostile - hostile fire - IED attack
US NAME NOT RELEASED YET Al Anbar Province Non-hostile - vehicle accident
US NAME NOT RELEASED YET Al Anbar Province Hostile - hostile fire
US NAME NOT RELEASED YET Al Anbar Province Hostile - hostile fire
And this from
http://www.cnn.com as of 11:30am EST today.
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I also scanned LAtimes, NYtimes, WaPo, and MN Star Tribune
Nothing.
Doesn't the MSM care about our soldiers any more?