God rest their souls, and comfort their loved ones.
Champagne corks popping at CNN, MSNBC, CBS, ABC, NBC, NYT, Wash Post.
God rest all their souls. They died fighting for freedom and Jesus says that there is no greater love than that a man lay down his life for a friend.
Read the article.
They already are.
No bias there. no sir./sarc
The looney left can break out the bubbly now.
We should honor everyone of them for their ultimate sacrifice, not use them as a reason to cut and run. They weren't part of the me, me, me crowd that is tearing this country apart.
In perspective during past wars there were days when 2,000 fatalities was a normal day.
So are the lefties opening the bubbly, one wonders.
Remember, for the Left, a dead Iraqi Baathist is a tragedy, a dead American or British soldier is an opportunity.
Regards, Ivan
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Iwo_Jima
One battle: 26,000 casualties and 7,000 dead.
How apropos this is from Yahoo! That's exactly how the DUmmies are reacting.
As much as I hate counting bodies maybe we should draw a comparison between the numbers of KIA in Vietnam and KIA in Iraq. By my figuring it's going to take at least 40 years to approach similar numbers of KIA as came out of Vietnam.
One is too many but this is the real world.
You'd have to look for some newspapers during the Reconstruction era South cheering on the KKK to see journalists so in favor of "insurgents" after a war is over.
And for those who ask "when" are we leaving, when are we leaving Bosnia? Germany? Japan? Korea?
Is Sheehan chained to the WH fence yet?
Thank God our grandparents weren't such wusses during WWII. 2000 casualties in a single battle did not even rate as a major loss of life. That only 2000 have died, and not all of them in combat, over three YEARS against an enemy that has no armies and no rules of engagement, except blowing up as many people as possible, is miraculous! Our troops and their leaders have done and are doing a spectacular job. Shame on the leftists who cheapen the sacrifice of these courageous, dedicated men and women by their cheerleading for the jihadis. They deserve our scorn, not TV coverage and NYT homage.
The KIA's are UNBELIEVABLY low by ANY wartime historic standard. We should be praising our troops DAILY with POSITIVE news so that our nation's 'civilians' know what a terrific job they are doing!!!
Why haven't I heard this from the MSM?
Oh, wait. I forgot... I don't watch the MSM!
I don't know how true this story is - can't find on CNN
I truly wonder if the dems and MSM know how they are preceived? Are there gains to be made by the troubles the Republicans are having? Sure there are, but the dems, as always overplay their hands. They offer nothing and continue to do nothing but whine and complain. They overplay their hands so much, that they can't even mask that they are invested in U.S. defeat in Iraq.
The same with the MSM. The MSM is far too busy patting itself on the back for their Katrina coverage to notice the real fallout. It is akin to that blowhard who overstates his/her abilities. Yet, when it comes time to put up the results, he/she fails to match his/her own. The blowhard thinks he/she can just move on and nobody will notice. Oh, but the audience does notice and the blowhard's credibility is shot. Where were the 10,000 dead, the toxic soup, the scenes of death and rape, etc. etc.?
So now, the MSM sits around on a goulish death watch. They don't get that merely reporting the news could be enough to gain sympathy for the anti-war side. Instead, the MSM gives off the impression of rooting for the deaths. That only drives sympathy in the opposite direction.
But what the hell, the MSM and the dems don't care, a lack of self-awareness is bliss.
Not correct. As of today, 438 of the 2,000 were due to non-hostile causes.