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Politics : I Will Continue to Continue, to Pretend....
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To: Sully- who wrote (15002)10/24/2005 10:13:06 PM
From: Sully-  Read Replies (50) of 35834
 
Hypocrisy in the MSM. Ya, ya, I know. You're shocked! Shocked!

Body Count

Posted by Bill Crawford
All Things Conservative

The liberal media is upset over the Pentagon's decision to start releasing enemy body counts in Iraq:

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Privately, several uniformed military and civilian defense officials expressed concern that the pendulum may have swung too far, with body counts now creeping into too many news releases from Iraq and Afghanistan. They also questioned the effectiveness of citing such figures in conflicts where the enemy has shown itself capable of rapidly replacing dead fighters and where commanders acknowledge great uncertainty about the total size of the enemy force.
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This is just a little hypocritical don't you think? In my local paper, the San Antonio Express-News, they have a "death box" in the paper every day that lists the American casualties in Iraq (Afghanistan is strangely omitted). Moreover, every paper in the country will be having "special reports" soon when the number of American deaths reaches the artificial milestone of 2,000. So why shouldn't the Pentagon release the number of terrorist deaths, and how come the MSM can give daily updates of American deaths, and then look down their collective noses at the Pentagon reporting of the number of enemy dead? Here is a novel thought: Perhaps if the MSM would report on events in Iraq a little more fairly it wouldn't be necessary for the Pentagon to release the figures on the number of enemy fatalities.

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