The Expansionist

Tuesday, October 25, 2005

2,000 Dead "Not a Milestone". The U.S. military, trying to blunt the emotional impact of American military dead reaching the round number 2,000, tried to stop media from using terms like "milepost" by using "milestone" themselves:

"I ask that when you report on the events, take a moment to think about the effects on the families and those serving in Iraq," Boylan said in an e-mail. "The 2,000 service members killed in Iraq supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom is not a milestone. It is an artificial mark on the wall set by individuals or groups with specific agendas and ulterior motives."

Boylan said the 2,000th service member to die in Iraq "is just as important as the first that died and will be just as important as the last to die in this war against terrorism and to ensure freedom for a people who have not known freedom in over two generations."

This pitiful and offensive ploy, once again pretending that the war against Iraq was (from the outset) really against international terrorism and for Iraq, did not work. The words "milestone" and "milepost" were all over the news, print as well as spoken. Indeed, the article quoted above is titled "Grim milestone for U.S. military in Iraq". If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it's a milestone. And we know about the military's and Zionists' agendas and ulterior motives. War against Arabs is not for Arabs. No one is fooled but fools.
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Missing from this report, and all reports in U.S. media, is the unknown number of Iraqis who have died as a result of the U.S. assault and occupation, and the chaos unleashed upon Iraq by people fiting the occupation — or using it as excuse for their efforts to install an Islamic theocracy and crush Shia Islam, which many Sunni insurgents regard as heresy.
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Iraqis would exult if they had only 2,000 dead.
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(The current U.S. military death toll in Iraq, according to the website "Iraq Coalition Casualties", is 2,000.)

- posted by L. Craig Schoonmaker @ 7:36 PM

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