Fuck!

R.I.P. This shouldn't have happened to you.

God help me: I'm getting that apathetic sensation, the desensitization feeling that most of us have developed about when we read about the hundred or so Iraqis that are snuffed every week.

I don't care which side of the aisle you're on, no matter if you think Bush is Satan or Jesus, if you think we should stay the course or get the fuck out: status quo and the "serge" (named for one of Dubya's "special friends" back at Yale no doubt) are just increasing American deaths.

The military is the one export we have left. Of course it's services is sold out to the highest bidder. Iraq's resources are paying the bills. Not our bills nationally, but someones bills.

Five more that can't whine to the liberal media about the lousy conditions at Walter Reed.

330 in three months, tis accellerating.

we told you this would happen

Democratic Congress and sane Republicans -

STOP THE MADNESS!

Even the military leaders know this is a clusterfuck:
"This is the most diabolical enemy out there. I've never seen anything like it," the top U.S. commander here, Army Gen. David H. Petraeus, said in an interview.

"It is far and away the most complex situation we've been in during my time in uniform," he said. "I've done two other tours here, and this is far and away, orders of magnitude, more complex."

The point of the current mission, said David Kilcullen, Petraeus' top counterinsurgency advisor, is not to help Iraq "turn a corner" that would allow the U.S. to leave the country in a state of peace. Instead, U.S. strategists hope to beat back militant groups enough to give Iraq's Shiite-led government a chance to achieve some measure of stability.

"I don't know how many times senior leaders in America have said we have turned a corner in Iraq. We've turned a corner so many times we are all getting dizzy," said Kilcullen, a former officer in the Australian army.

"We haven't turned the tide. We haven't turned the corner, there isn't light at the end of the tunnel. But what we have done is take a failing enterprise and put it on a sound long-term footing."

I just love how the Retort picks and chooses its news. I haven't seen one thing on here today that talks about the foiled bombings in London this morning. Instead, the Retort gives us the bad news instead of good news. 5 American soldiers died in Iraq today. This is sad, and tragic. But today, I lost a good friend of mine in a car accident. He died going too fast and also didn't have a seat belt on when he slammed head on into a tree. He, and several thousand others like him, died today in car crashes inside the United States. And yet we don't hear a lick about them. That just makes me angry and sad. Why not report that?

I'm sick and tired of hearing "Today was another deadly day for American soldiers in Iraq..." blah, blah, blah! I am so glad that we didn't have TV back in the 1860's. The South probably would have won the Civil War because over 500 Union soldiers died in the first major battle of that war with another 2,300 soldiers wounded or missing. Just think of the field day the Retort, CNN, CBS, MSNBC, etc. would have had with those numbers in 1861.

How pathetic.

USA-
Please help me follow the odd madness of your post: It was "bad" news that soldiers died in Iraq, but "good" news that your good friend died in a car accident.

???

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Again, dude, your post has me confused:

... the Retort gives us the bad news instead of good news. 5 American soldiers died in Iraq today. This is sad, and tragic. But today, I lost a good friend of mine in a car accident.

Allow me a random guess or two:

1. You did not lose a "good friend... in a car accident...today".

2. You are an asshole.

I just love how the Retort picks and chooses its news. I haven't seen one thing on here today that talks about the foiled bombings in London this morning. Instead, the Retort gives us the bad news instead of good news. 5 American soldiers died in Iraq today....How pathetic.
Posted by USPatriot at 2007-06-29 11:23 PM

Chris' post about the car bomb had been up on the DR for about 15 hours already.

This is similar to Rob's whining and winging. You want to see something posted, post it yourself. Unless, as in this case, it's been up and about for over half a day.

US patriot, thanks for letting us know you have "good friends" who drive too fast without a seatbelt. Your friends are dumb if they do that and even dumber if they can't avoid trees. Any alcohol in your "good friend"? His autopsy might be in your local paper but why in hell should traffic accidents be posted in the Drudge Retort unless there is something specially unusual about them.

If you read this place you would know there were at least three threads here on the London bomb plots.

You are sad (OK) angry (aren't we all?) and an idiot.