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Originally Posted by docholly
.. but really we were treated nightly to kind grandfatherly Walter Cronkite telling us.. 237 casualities today and 572 wounded in action.
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Apparently even those numbers are fudged. Seems that they rush the badly wounded soldiers out of country to hospitals in Germany or wherever, and those deaths aren't included as casulties in Iraq.
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Originally Posted by docholly
I heard the other day Senator McCain saying that the news shouldn't give the number of people who died or what action was taken in Iraq because we the public doesn't need to see it.
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Also heard on one of the news shows that reporters aren't allowed to check on returning casulties.