1708 SOLDIERS KILLED IN IRAQ 12,855 WOUNDED
190 SOLDIERS KILLED IN AFGHANISTAN SEE: http://icasualties.org/oif/ http://icasualties.org/oef/ DoD tally: http://www.defenselink.mil/news/casualty.pdf Families of dead U.S. soldiers slam Bush over Iraq war 6/14/2005 http://www.aljazeera.com/me.asp?service_ID=8917 The editors of Coalition For Free Thought In Media hope that this very powerful pictorial can serve as a tribute to all the fallen and wounded soldiers. There have been little or no pictures of funerals and the dead and wounded soldiers appearing in the US media. This is the awful reality of the war we are fighting, that the US government has attempted to black out and hide from the public. The Bush administration has officially ordered the US media not to carry pictures of the coffins or the dead soldiers. Pictures like this must be seen by the public, so that the real horrors and tragedy is never forgotten. We at C.F.T.M. feel it is our duty to do this. Over 50% of people recently polled in the US could not say how many soldiers had died in Iraq (within 500). It is because our views of the coffins returning and the funerals are being deliberately blocked and hindered. Since March 2003, a newly-enforced military regulation has forbidden taking or distributing images of caskets or body tubes containing the remains of soldiers who died overseas. FOR MORE INFO ON THE COFFIN BAN SEE: Curtains Ordered for Media Coverage of Returning Coffins http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&contentId=A55816-2003Oct20¬Found=true JAY SHAFT, EDITOR, C.F.T.M. Photo Tribute Compiled by Jay Shaft and the Editors of C.F.T.M. IF THESE PICTURES DO NOT TRANSMIT INTACT, THE ORIGINAL POST CAN BE FOUND AT http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CFTMGroup/message/900 "I think war is a dangerous place." George W. Bush, Washington, D.C., May 7, 2003 "Sometimes, words have consequences you don't intend them to mean," Mr Bush said. "'Bring 'em on' is the classic example, when I was really trying to rally the troops and make it clear to them that I fully understood, you know, what a great job they were doing." 1/14/05 http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,1391044,00.html US deaths since July 2, 2003: 1501 (Pres. Bush announces, "Bring Them On") "If you're reading this, then I've died for our country. I just hope it wasn't for nothing." US Army Spc. David P. Mahlenbrock, 20. Killed by a roadside bomb in Kirkuk on 12/03/04 Most Americans Don't Know How Many Have Died in Iraq War By THOMAS HARGROVE and GUIDO H. STEMPEL III Feb 12, 2005, 06:44 http://www.capitolhillblue.com/artman/publish/article_6200.shtml "We need to stop hiding the deaths of our young" Dead US soldier's mother No cameras for US war dead's return http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/3239659.stm Ever since the Vietnam war, it has been assumed - in the United States and abroad - that American public opinion cannot stomach high casualties. The following poem is dedicated to the troops that have died and the families who must continue to live with the grief on a daily basis. I wrote it on the day the death toll hit 1500 troops. The Endless Funeral Procession Poem by Jay Shaft We would not have to remember you in past tense if not for a senseless war. PLEASE GO TO http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0505/S00136.htm to read this poem. It seems we all wear black and all the time now so often flags are folded as collectively we bow our heads and cry, red and white of roses takes on our mourning poses we see you fall screaming on far flung battlefield and wonder WHY? While the sun shines brightly on your gleaming polished coffin we know you have forever lost the light, and slipped so far from living comfort, mortal graces while we prepare to attend another fallen son or daughter�s solemn tribute, the bugles echo still from the last soldier�s entombment. "As you know, you go to war with the army you have, not the army you might want or wish to have at a later time." �Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, responding to a U.S. soldier serving in Iraq who asked him why troops had to dig through scrap metal to armor vehicles (Read more Rumsfeldisms) "We can see a lot of progress being made, but it is far from over," he said. "It's going to take a lot of time, patience and dedication on the part of our soldiers away from their families." Donald Rumsfeld June 19th, 2003 Taps: Day is done, gone the sun, From the hills, from the lake, From the sky. All is well, safely rest, God is nigh. Go to sleep, peaceful sleep,May the soldier or sailor,God keep.On the land or the deep,Safe in sleep. Love, good night, Must thou go,When the day, And the night Need thee so?All is well. Speedeth all To their rest. Fades the light; And afar Goeth day, And the stars Shineth bright, Fare thee well; Day has gone, Night is on. 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