[holy_saiyan1]

if i hear "Grim Milestone" one more time in the MSM, I am going to scream red rum.. current Google count for "grim milestone" (exact phrase) is 98,900. media overload anyone?

just one of the many many MSM repeaters http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...d/mideast/iraq

The spokesman for the American-led multinational force called on news organizations not to look at the 2,000 death as a milestone in the conflict. Lt. Col. Steve Boylan described 2,000 figure as an "artificial mark on the wall."

i have the odd feeling that we're going to hear all about Bush's frag counts 1,998 through 2,000 from the left, and not about what they were doing for the Iraqi people and why they themself chose to enlist. oh that's right. they were lied to.

sorry if i'm bitter. on my campus, Ohio University, there is a Communist underground newspaper hosting a "d2k party" to celebrate the death of #2,000 and to commisurate about how fascist this country is under Bu****ler, Iraq war, selected-not-elected, and so on and so on.

despicable.

[LANMaster]

[loserOlimbs]

Anyone see the Daily show today, they had a clip of CNN I think where they compared this war to WW1, WW2, Vietnam and the Gulf War.

Now my question is why is everyone so angry about this war? I think its because no one remembers (if they ever knew) why we are fighting.

[Bush Lady]

Originally Posted by loserOlimbs

Anyone see the Daily show today, they had a clip of CNN I think where they compared this war to WW1, WW2, Vietnam and the Gulf War.

Now my question is why is everyone so angry about this war? I think its because no one remembers (if they ever knew) why we are fighting.

Why you are fighting? That's easy. Bush wanted the price of oil to go down. You wanted to get some to the oil fields in Iraq, so you could get the price of oil to go down. Instead the price of oil went the opposite way.

If you wanted cheap oil, you could have invaded Canada.

[LANMaster]

AN OBSCENE OMISSION

There is saintliness in a soldier's prospective acceptance of an honorable death in combat. To diminish such a deed, especially in service of a political agenda, approaches sacrilege.

So it was with the manner in which The New York Times last week noted the death of Cpl. Jeffrey Starr, USMC, of Snohomish, Wash., who was killed in Ramadi on April 30 during his third tour of duty in Iraq.

The young Marine's death was a centerpiece in the Times' coverage of America's 2,000th combat death in Iraq.

The newspaper's overview of the war is no secret: To hear the Times tell it, Americans are being slaughtered for no reason in an unjust war.

To bolster its argument, the Times last week publicly slandered the memory of a genuine American hero — Cpl. Starr.

In a profile of multiple-tour vets, the Times wrote about Starr — who served in the First Battalion of the Fifth Marine Regiment — and quoted from a letter to his girlfriend found on his computer after his death. "I kind of predicted this," it read, referring to his death. "A third time just seemed like I'm pushing my chances."

There it is — dark, foreboding, pessimistic, without any suggestion that he believed he was in Iraq for a valid purpose.

But, as columnist Michelle Malkin disclosed on these pages two days ago, after hearing from Starr's family, there was more to his letter — much more.

"I don't regret going," he wrote. "Everybody dies — but few get to do it for something as important as freedom."

Nor did he have any doubts or questions about his mission: "It may seem confusing why we're in Iraq, [but] it's not to me. . . . I'm here trying to help these people, so that they can live the way we live. Not have to worry about tyrants or vicious dictators. To do what they want with their lives.

"To me, that is why I died," wrote Starr. "Others have died for my freedom — now this is my mark."

Again: "Others have died for my freedom — now this is my mark."

Those words ought to be chiseled in granite somewhere.

But, for The New York Times, they weren't fit to print.

After all, they don't mesh with the anti-war message relentlessly promulgated by the self-proclaimed paper of record.

More at the link

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