Changing the Channel
In case we all forgot, Americans are still dying in Iraq
Jimmy Breslin
August 6, 2006
By the way, there are many American soldiers fighting in the Middle East.In case you haven't noticed, they get killed. A lot of them get killed.
I was watching the endless television coverage of Israel and Hezbollah/Lebanon killing women and children and then picking up the papers to read almost exclusively of the same thing. I found no picture on television and almost no mention in newspapers of Americans dying.
The dead babies of Lebanon and those dismembered by rockets in Israel are considered to be glorious distractions that allow our government to stroll the hallways that appear to have no blood on the floors.
I made a call to the Defense Department: "How are our soldiers doing lately?"
"We've had a bad month," the man responded.
"How bad?"
"Stay there and you'll see."
There now came faxes detailing American soldiers who died in Iraq since July 1. There have been 50 who died since then.
Bush and Condi are going to do nothing about this because it has blown Iraq off the screen and the front pages. Iraq is a net negative for Bushco. He's gotten his mid-term election distraction.