Honor The Fallen

2:10 pm EST October 25th, 2005 | News | 14 Comments

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Two-thousand American Troops have now been killed in Iraq. As we pass this grim milestone, the media will briefly turn their attention away from celebrity diet fads, and on to the human cost of the war.

But for over two years, the media have failed to adequately honor the sacrifice of America s Servicemembers. Putting the names of the fallen on the back pages is an insult to America s Troops and to the families of the fallen, and is yet another example of poor media coverage of the war.

Consider that in the Oct. 13 edition of The New York Times, the day after six Americans were killed in Iraq, the names of the dead were relegated to Page A-10 in a tiny box at the bottom of the page, about one-quarter the size of a Bloomingdale s ad on the same page.

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14 Responses to “Honor The Fallen”

  1. Semanticleo says:
    October 25, 2005 at 3:10 pm

    How long will americans be patient? 10 years?

    http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051019/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/us_iraq;_ylt=AjGplMhb_q8PAMsginu5DaOyFz4D;_ylu=X3oDMTA5aHJvMDdwBHNlYwN5bmNhdA%E2%80%93

  2. Semanticleo says:
    October 25, 2005 at 3:10 pm

    The talking points of positivism (wishful thinking) about the approval of the Consitution and Parliamentary elections in December better bear fruit. The cons and the religious right know this will set them back for decades if it doesn’t. It is not fair to suggest that’s their primary concern, but god help them if that becomes the perception of the american people.

    As for the Press, they will be weenies until it is popular to become otherwise.
    They are mainstream wankers, just like the majority of our elected leaders.

  3. elrod says:
    October 25, 2005 at 4:10 pm

    December 15 will be a major political turning point in the Iraq war – for America. Because after that date, there will be no more definitive milestone dates where we can look to for progress. The permanent government will be in place, and the job of the new Iraqi government will be to govern. The transitional period will officially be over. If we continue to maintain a presence there, we will have to justify it differently than in the past, where we could always say that we wanted to ensure that Iraqis could vote in peace for their own government. Expect politicians from BOTH political parties to demand a major withdrawal after December 15 as the mission becomes progressively more unclear. Fighting the terrorists? At whose request? Protecting the new government? For whom? If the latest British army poll of Iraqis is accurate, only about 10% of Iraqis still wanted Coalition troops in the country. How long can an elected government ignore the people’s will?

  4. JD says:
    October 25, 2005 at 7:10 pm

    How long were Americans patient while we were in Germany? Japan?

  5. Semanticleo says:
    October 26, 2005 at 2:10 pm

    Here’s more Librul media bias;

    http://www.economist.com/agenda/displaystory.cfm?story_id=5078399

  6. Frank_D says:
    October 26, 2005 at 2:10 pm

    But for over two years, the media have failed to adequately honor the sacrifice of America s Servicemembers.

    Because they’ve been too busy exploiting the dead to push forward their anti war agenda. Of course, you’ll say, “Liberal media bias? What liberal media bias?”

  7. buma says:
    October 26, 2005 at 6:10 pm

    How long were Americans patient while we were in Germany? Japan? >>

    Hmmm, Irag, Germany. Car bombs, Oktoberfest. RPGs, Autobahn. Baghdad, Berlin.

    How much patience should we have, winger?

  8. JD says:
    October 26, 2005 at 10:10 pm

    buma :

    We have only been in those places for in excess of 50 years … moonbat.

  9. Semanticleo says:
    October 27, 2005 at 10:10 am

    More from the Poster Boys of the Liberal news media bias.

    WaPo

    http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/10/26/AR2005102602134.html

  10. Frank_D says:
    October 27, 2005 at 7:10 pm

    Deep, deep in the article:

    In fact, one of the greatest dangers of Iraq is that domestic disenchantment with the mission will lead to a premature withdrawal of U.S. troops, a step that would greatly increase the carnage and hand a major victory to this country’s foremost enemy, the Islamic extremist movement headed by al Qaeda.

  11. Semanticleo says:
    October 27, 2005 at 8:10 pm

    You seem satifisfied with their liberal bias.

  12. Semanticleo says:
    October 27, 2005 at 8:10 pm

    Maybe all this should have been discussed in an open and honest way before the march to war began. Oh, excuse me. It never would have happened if we had done that unthinkable thing. Now it’s too late for self-recrimination.

    It is our opportunity to take the “Grand Tour”. We should have had Bush and Gang in the White House in WW II. They would have listened to Patton, marginalized Bradley and Eisenhower, then continued marching on to the Kremlin.

  13. Frank_D says:
    October 27, 2005 at 10:10 pm

    And Eastern Europe would have been free from 1945 – 1989.

    Pick a better example, Leo.

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