Media Celebrate 2,000 U.S. Dead in Iraq

NewsMax.com ^ | 26 October 2005 | Carl Limbacher

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[BigTom85]

"F em, ignore em, don't subscribe to em and watch em lay off more and more people."

Yep thats my attitude also. I wouldnt give a dime of my money to any of these papers. The NY Times stock is going down faster than a cinder block in a lake! Let them keep up the 'good work'.. They are digging their own graves and putting themselves on the unemployment line!

[alloysteel]

Remarking on the 'milestone' of 2,000 US service members who have died in connection with the operations in Iraq is such an artificial construct. EVERY death is to be mourned, and is, in its own way and in its own meaning to the loved ones remaining.

The price for giving Iraq a constitutional representative elected government as a republic, and removing the former regime, has been costly in terms of lives, both those of coalition soldiers and Iraqi civilians, but the alternative, that of allowing Saddam Hussein to remain in power, meant only continued repression of some 25 million, a continuing threat to world economic balance, and a source of great amounts of international terrorist money. Did Saddam send the agents that brought down the World Trade Center? Maybe not, but he surely helped pay for their passage when they traveled to the US, the flight training they obtained prior to setting their plans into motion, and maybe even the tickets they used to board the airplanes they hijacked on September 11, 2001.

[bmwcyle]

There is over 5000 dead. Don't forget (as the left does) NYC.

[PleaDeal]

I love the Washington Times! The only mention of the magic "2000" was buried in the 5th paragraph of a story about the approval of the new Constitution.

Take that WaPo!

[EagleUSA]

..suddenly can't get enough of the fact that 2,000 of America's heroes have died.
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The traitorous bastards of the MSM should be expelled from this country. They do not deserve to live under the protection of our military and this great nation. They are not Americans. They are traitors and deserve all the recognition of that FACT.

[Forest Keeper]

It is interesting how the liberals are so preoccupied with noting the loss of American lives. If all the abortions in this country last year were spread evenly over all the hours of the year, then the 2000th baby would have died at approximately 1:30 pm, on January 1. Kinda puts it in perspective.

[CHICAGOFARMER]

THE REAL STORY

In Memory Of The Thousands Of American Victims of Islamic and Arab TerroristsThese pages are dedicated to the thousands of Americans who have lost their lives either directly or indirectly to Islamic and Arab Terrorists over the past 30+ years. They do not include those who were "merely" wounded in bombings, shootings, stabbings, stonings, torturings, maimings, kidnappings and hijackings.
We will not forget.


Time for a moment of prayer for our soldiers as the MSM supports the terroists by echoing time to get out of IRAQ.

http://www.geocities.com/ktkris.geo/freedom.html

[SueRae]

I got this ina na eamil today...

There has been an average of 160,000 troops stationed in Iraq during the last 22 months. During this time the firearm death total was 2,112 for a firearm death rate of 60 per 100,000. The rate in Washington, DC is 80.6 per 100,000. This means you are more likely to be shot and killed in our Nation's Capitol, which has some of the strictest gun control laws in the nation, than you are in Iraq.

Conclusion: We should immediately pull out of Washington, D.C.

[USMCPOP]

I'll bet the per-capita possession of firearms is Iraq is much greater. I think DC just needs more guns.

[thoughtomator]

The only way our soldiers can please the liberals is to die.

[nuf said]

The Today Show called it 'a milestone.' How crass is that?!?

[trooprally]

Amen LOL

[Do not dub me shapka broham]

BTTT

[Rob_DSM]

Why is 2000 any different than 1999 or 2001 or 1845 or 2032? It's not like it's a fund raiser with some set goal to surpass or somethining of that nature. Oh wait--we're talking about liberals here. Nevermind.

[R. Scott]

What our “esteemed” media rarely mentions in their celebration of Jihadists victories is that the “2000 dead” include those who have died from accidents, disease and suicide. They are following in the footsteps of their Great Icon of Anti-American Propaganda, Walter Cronkite.
As for the terrorist sympathizer, Cindy Sheehan – news has announced that she plans to celebrate the event by “symbolically dying” and tying herself to the White House fence. Maybe she’ll go to far and make in not just “symbolic” – but then she would be proclaimed a Martyr for The Cause.

[concretebob]

Monday night I had the honor of attending, along with several of the members of the DC Chapter of FreeRepublic, a debate at Sherwood High School in Olney, MD.
It left me with two impressions:
1.The people who believe this is an illegal war perpetrated by President Bush for the enrichment of his cronies and Halliburton will never be convinced otherwise, regardless of what we say or do.
and
2.The use of imaginary numbers to further a cause is rampant.
The gentleman from the CATO Institute, who was supposed to be on the "against the war" side, said that 100,000 people had died since the invasion in March 2003.
In any other forum, I would have called him on it and made him furnish the hard data to back up that claim. However the type of forum did not allow for true audience participation.
Rep Wynn was there, and contradicted himself several times in his responses to the questions.
At the very end, all three on the panel agreed that an immediate pullout would be disastrous.
You have Freepmail regarding the debate.

[USMCPOP]

Maybe they'd call this a milestone?

[Mike Darancette]

During WWII I don't recall seeing any evidence that the MSM reported deaths by theater. Why all the fuss over a certain number of deaths in the Iraqi Theater of the war on terror?

Just report on the over 5,000 deaths so far in the war on terror.

[NicknamedBob]

" I wouldn't give a dime of my money to any of these papers."

The Washington Times, which is the pebble in the shoe of the boot on our face, is available on a weekly subscription basis. Well worth its nominal cost.

Okay, I admit it, I haven't been reading the mainstream newspapers -- I'm behind the Times.