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Harry, I’m
with you on this one, waiting to see the internal PDF myself. As I wrote
previously, the magnitude of such a deception would ignite the growing grassroots
unrest and distrust of the Bush-Cheney administration, built with kindling of
their own gleaning. However,
before you pooh-pooh the idea entirely just because you haven’t read anything that challenges the official
counts, do as I plan to do from now on when I see those tributes on the evening
news broadcasts naming those lost, with their photos and sometimes a brief
personal mention (CBS Bob Schaeffer doing this, PBS posts in silence): let’s
start paying attention to the rank and service, not just their ages. Do you see only active duty or are
Reservists/Guards noted? A policy of
deception such as this must be investigated, regardless of how much any of us
hopes it isn’t true. Karen Keith, I would like to see this memo authenticated. Come to think about it, I’d like to see this memo. From time to time, the listing of war dead is seen on national
television. (Not to mention elsewhere. I could imagine the uproar from the 7,300 parents, spouses, and
siblings when they find no mention of their loved ones in these listings of ALL
Iraqi war dead. Yet, not a peep. Could it just be that the “leak” is absolute poppycock? Never mind, the rumor will makes the rounds until it becomes fact –
like the peculiar statistical projection of 98,000 dead civilians from 21
actual deaths “many” of whom might be soldiers. (It reminds me of the 17 changes Thatcher made in the statistical count
of the unemployed, With each count, unemployment lessened.) I’ve never professed to be an intellectual – whatever that may be (I
understand you have lots of them in I’m not sure that intellectuals can. So, wait for yet another rumor to become fact thus joining the other
“facts” that bedevil us. However, I am glad that the Harry |
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