It’s “Grim Milestone” Day in the MSM
Does the MSM revert to talking points on Iraq? Well, let’s see just how many times news stories today used the phrase “grim milestone” to refer to the 4000th soldier killed by Islamists there.
How did they refer to the 3000th soldier killed in Iraq? Huh…looks familiar.
You get to see it pop up like crabgrass in headlines announcing the 2500th killed, too.
What about the 2000th? Goodness, I’ve seen that phrase before, haven’t you?
I wonder if these reporters have a hotkey set up in Microsoft Word for that phrase, because here it is, even at the 1000th soldier killed. Do note the MS-NBC and CNN presence there.
For all the talk I’ve heard over the past few years about the administration’s “drumbeat” to war, I can’t help but notice that the MSM has a pretty good percussion section of its own.
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Category: Fighting the Islamists, Oh, THAT liberal media., The Long War Here At Home
Is it just me or do most of the people announcing this “Grim Milestone” have a tone of barely contained glee in their voices.
I don't think it's just you, Martin.
4000 isn't really an important number. We already passed the important number. George Bush has already sent more Americans to their death than Osama bin Laden. If these deaths resulted in some kind of positive outcome, it might be worth it. But replacing Hussein with civil war and coating the country in uranium residue doesn't exactly seem like a good thing.
Well, George Bush and Congress. It's how we go about declaring war and all.
And since we went above and beyond what the violation of a cease-fire required, I figured you'd be more charitable.
You know, I was just reading a report on the effects of depleted uranium in Iraq. It is likely that 3 million people will die of cancer in the next ten years due to our use of depleted uranium. They won't have bullets in their heads, but they will die just the same. And Bush will have killed more people than Pol Pot. It's pretty hard to be charitable about that. The only charity that Bush deserves is to have his finger nails ripped out instead of being waterboarded. Sadly, Bush will never have to endure torture or any other negative effect for leaving Iraq a radioactive hellhole for the next 10,000 years. You might think I'm overreacting, but my mom died of leukemia (typical for those infected with radiation) and it really wasn't pleasant to watch. But millions of Iraqis will go through the same experience. It isn't a joke. Leukemia has gone up by factor of twenty and birth defects have gone up by a factor of fifty. Radiation has consequences and we have spread far more radiation in Iraq than we did in Hiroshima. What's amazing about this is that our government admits that normal uranium causes cancer (leukemia in particular), but maintains that depleted uranium, which is about 70% as radioactive, is perfectly safe. That is simply not supported by science. And in ten years, we'll have the proof of that (we actually already have the proof in the Balkans, but nobody cares). Our use of depleted uranium rounds is nothing less than a war crime.
I've likewise read several reports about depleted uranium from both our government, the EU, and the WHO that have said that the risk is minimal, at best.
Those reports are supported by science. I'm sorry, but you're terribly misinformed on this issue.