Comments on: Iraq Death Toll Rising

By: jimbo

jimbo — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 17:51:32 +0000

I agree most ppl across the country dont know or care we have ppl overseas fighting wars… they live in their own little worlds… and if they do know about us fighting, crappy media who always slants the issue to get viewers..

By: BOOMER

BOOMER — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 17:48:27 +0000

Soldier, your right on the money. The media has been the nemisis of the military since NAM and continues to be so. They should have stuck with the original stars and stripes media for war coverage, really get the fighters perspective. The country has gotten too soft and too liberal. It would be great if we still had icons like John Wayne still making war movies to stirr up patriotism in Americans.

By: Soldier

Soldier — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 00:17:10 +0000

Why did this writer stop at September 2008? Why did he include all the other months since the "war" started? I don't see how the death tolls are rising. When you look at the death tolls all the other years had more YTD totals than this year. Look into this yourself if you don't believe me. It isn't hard to do. It really bothers me when the media with holds information in order to make thing look worse than they really are. We are trying to do a job and the media is making it hard on our families. The reaction from our families adds extra stress on the soldiers while they are deployed. Don't you think we are under enough stress as it is? We don't need the U.S. media adding to that. Individuals that do this are not supporting us very well at all regardless if they say the support us or not.

By: BOOMER

BOOMER — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 16:02:35 +0000

The elections did have an effect on the attakcs, but one reason they are more and more prominent is because our hands are being tied more and more behind our backs and they know it, we patrol less, we wait to see if the local military or police are going to respond before we do, and we can’t just open fire on anyone approaching that doesn’t automaticly respond to our commands anymore. The bad guys know all of this and are taking advantage of it. We never should have rearmed any of them or turned over any control to them till we felt the streets were safe and most of the opostion destroyed, not just one faction of it. With the draw down we will see even more, but the politicians and liberals, including some generals wont listen to the troops as usual.

By: Soldier1

Soldier1 — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 18:44:30 +0000

The deaths will continue no matter what we do, however I believe we should stay till the end.

By: motown67

motown67 — Fri, 29 May 2009 14:04:41 +0000

Towards the end of 2008 attacks and deaths across Iraq dropped. That was because of the Jan. 09 provincial elections where record numbers of Sunnis participated in. The insurgents in turn cut back on actions so that Sunnis could campaign. Jan. 09 saw the lowest attack and death numbers since the invasion. What you’re seeing now is the insurgents ramping up their operations to what they were before. The number of overall attacks are actually staying about what they were since Nov. 08, but deaths finally crept up to what they were around Dec. 08. What is increasing are mass casualty bombings, because obviously just a few of those can boost up the death count. Gen. Odierno recently said that Iraq could face this type of violence for the next 5–15 years. musingsoniraq.blogspot.com

By: Chief Crissey

Chief Crissey — Fri, 29 May 2009 06:01:07 +0000

No offense to President Obama , but Iraq and Afghanistan and Korea are not Chicago !!!! He and Hilary are not Military Wise !!I didn’t think Viet — Nam was Baltimore either !!! They need some good advice from the experienced Generals !! We cannot afford to make any more bad decisions , as America is strained now !!

By: Charles Phillips

Charles Phillips — Fri, 29 May 2009 01:13:45 +0000

We don’t have much in reserve these days, look for us to start drafting the Boy Scouts…