----- Original Message ----- From: "Warren Ockrassa" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Killer Bs Discussion" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, September 18, 2004 11:47 AM Subject: Re: Did we get our butts kicked in the battle of Bhagdad?
> On Sep 18, 2004, at 9:31 AM, kerry miller wrote: > > > > > --- Warren Ockrassa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> On Sep 18, 2004, at 8:46 AM, Gautam Mukunda wrote: > >> > >>> --- Robert Seeberger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >>> wrote: > >>>> Exactly the same kinds of questions I asked myself. > >>>> But on the other > >>>> hand if there were some sort of concerted effort to > >>>> that end, could it > >>>> even be done? > >>>> > >>>> xponent > >>>> UFOs Did It Maru > >>>> rob > >>> > >>> No. The care which the American military takes to > >>> protect its dead is, religious isn't the right word > >>> (obviously it's religious) but also extraordinary. > >> > >> Almost as extraordinary as the care with which the American media is > >> not permitted to show imaged of flag-draped coffins leaving military > >> transports. > > > > That's not really a fair response to Gautam's post; the military is > > amazingly respectful of their dead. If you want to be snarky about it, > > you might want to mention the dreadful state of the VA. :( > > I wasn't trying to deny the military's respect toward its dead; I was > trying to point out that, respectful of its dead or not, the fact is > that we (as a nation) have very carefully not been permitted to see the > results in US casualties of this misbegotten war. > > What that means is that it is not beyond the bounds of conceivability > that an extra few hundred coffins could well have been slipped past the > blindfolded media. How many of those dead would have a brother, sister, mother, father, wife, husband, children? Lets say 200 soldiers were killed "off the record." What were their families told? Units that train together tend to live close to each other. Family members form support group. Wouldn't someone have gotten a little suspicious if 20 women in the unit hadn't heard from their husbands in 18 months. Were their no survivors? Were the survivors threatened with death if they talked? Of all the soldiers and family involved, would none have the courage to keep faith with their fallen comrades? I have not seen this addressed in any of the conspiracy theories. Dan M. _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
