Five more US soldiers were
killed Friday. I saw nothing on this in the US media. Maybe I missed it. According to
IBC, this makes a total of 51 killed in July, and an overall total of 1796. Wounded have been over 12,000.
Glenn Kutler's data leads him to the cynical conclusion that Bush ignores the deaths because they hurt him politically on a local basis. According to Kutler, 75 million people voted in the Home Counties (residence of killed soldiers)....[versus] 45 million [in the counties which had no killed]. Kerry won the popular vote in the Home Counties, with 52%, while Bush won the counties in which none had been killed, with 57%.
There are significant confounders here: one alternative view is that
Democratic counties are more likely to have enlistees, whereas Republican counties have a lot of yellow elephants. Either interpretation is interesting, and damning as well.
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Either way, why is this not being covered more by the media. I don't watch a lot of TV news, but its not really there on Google mainstream media, and I didn't see it get any play in our Sunday papers. WTF? Does it hurt circulation to put 5 kids on the front page who gave their life for their country? WTF? Five kids in one day?
One missing blonde girl in Aruba has thousands of hours of coverage and we don't even know what happened to her. This blows dead goats.