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Politics : American Presidential Politics and foreign affairs -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Peter Dierks who wrote (16811)	1/21/2007 7:00:08 AM
From: PROLIFE	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71588

Great find, Peter!

To: Peter Dierks who wrote (16811)	1/24/2007 4:02:20 PM
From: E. T.	Respond to of 71588

"that most news organizations are more interested in morbid symbols and statistics-" Uh, uh, against the advice of the generals Bush insists on body counts and statistics. It's the sportsman in him. If more insurgents are dying than American soldiers, Bush takes it as a sign we're winning the war. But as anyone with military experience knows, it don't work that way. One example is Viet Nam, that's where the generals learned enemy body counts are meaningless. More than one million North Vietnamese fighters died, which is a gargantuan number vastly ahead of the American death toll. That the enemy was being killed off in huge numbers, was not a reflection of who was winning or not. Say what you will, if you've had anyone close to you die, for most grievers, it comes as a shock to see that the world continues on its merry way. The WH tried to stop.censor.hide reporting of the dead coming home. That did nothing for the grieving families, they want the world to know the sacrifice of their sons and daughter. In fact, they want to scream to the world that a loved one has died. Think what it looks like to the families that have lost someone, when they hear Bush was trying to hide it from the public. It was a shameful move on the president's part.