from juancole.com:
The press has concentrated on the significance passing the 500 mark (346 from hostile fire) with regard to deaths. But in this war, the injuries that have been survived have been horrific. Thousands of US soldiers are coming home with their faces blown off, or missing limbs, facing a lifetime in a wheel chair. The military medicine is good, and swift, and saves more lives. But the result is large numbers of permanently maimed vets. These have largely been hidden away from public view, and they haven't even always been treated very well on their return by the military...
This is what Brendan calls "media black out." You see it in the occasional opinion page, but it's rarely front page news. The president doesn't do military funerals, and the media abets. The administration hides the extent of UIS casualties, and the media abets.
Thank heaven for Ted Kennedy, who is speaking out against this war, accompanied by Brian and Alma Hart, whose son John was killed in Iraq, and Army Sgt. Peter Damon, who lost both arms serving in Iraq. By bringing victims like this on stage with him, he forces people to look at the ugly cost of war.
I feel bad for Sgt. Damon: it's hard to give Bush the finger with no arms. Too bad CNN's too pussy to show the restof us what it looks like.
The press has concentrated on the significance passing the 500 mark (346 from hostile fire) with regard to deaths. But in this war, the injuries that have been survived have been horrific. Thousands of US soldiers are coming home with their faces blown off, or missing limbs, facing a lifetime in a wheel chair. The military medicine is good, and swift, and saves more lives. But the result is large numbers of permanently maimed vets. These have largely been hidden away from public view, and they haven't even always been treated very well on their return by the military...
This is what Brendan calls "media black out." You see it in the occasional opinion page, but it's rarely front page news. The president doesn't do military funerals, and the media abets. The administration hides the extent of UIS casualties, and the media abets.
Thank heaven for Ted Kennedy, who is speaking out against this war, accompanied by Brian and Alma Hart, whose son John was killed in Iraq, and Army Sgt. Peter Damon, who lost both arms serving in Iraq. By bringing victims like this on stage with him, he forces people to look at the ugly cost of war.
I feel bad for Sgt. Damon: it's hard to give Bush the finger with no arms. Too bad CNN's too pussy to show the restof us what it looks like.
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