I believe the W.H. "sat" on the latest three dead soldiers.

As any faithful follower of icasualties.org could tell you, more often than not (if not every time) the count there increments after a CENTCOM press release stating the date, place, and cause of death and in the period details they've always listed for the first few days afterwards the date and place and cause of the death with the name filled in as "Name withheld pending notification of next-of-kin".

Now this morning I find MSNBC apparently scooped CENTCOM on these latest three, with the damned Pentagon announcing the deaths (according to their story) rather than the standard CENTCOM press release.

And the period details for the first time I've ever seen have nothing filled in...

Just "DETAILS NOT RELEASED YET (Actual Date Not Known)"

Now that count sat on 2497 throughout *'s visit to iraq until the day after his little press conference back in DC, then suddenly it jumps to 2500 afterwards with none of the usual CENTCOM press releases ever showing up and none of the usual details...only the names were withheld in all the other deaths.

Not that I'd ever accuse the administration of hiding dead soldiers temporarily for the sake of convenience, but if these deaths had been announced before DimSon's presser, that would have cast a definite pall on the proceedings.

Maybe it's no big deal, but if that's the way it went down I'd be friggin' outraged. They've got no damned right to do that. :grr:

on the period details page it links to a Yahoo news article instead of the usual "defenselink.mil" like the others all do.

And the news article explains why they may have indeed sat on these announcements as I suspect...



Yet another low reached in the slime-suckingest lowest of all administrations ever.

I have been checking http://icasualties.org/oif/ all day and it was still at 2497.
I was scratching my head at the 2500 KIA posts. I didn't see a link to it until now.

U.S. death toll in Iraq reaches 2,500
18,490 U.S. troops have been wounded since 2003 invasion, Pentagon says
BREAKING NEWS
Updated: 8:43 a.m. ET June 15, 2006

The dogs kept it a secret so there wouldn't be any "2500" questions at the press conference where they were trying to claim things are now "looking up". Nothing's sacred to these jerks.
Absolutely nothing.

This administration doesn't miss details like this, and their whole story yesterday was about Bush's latest winning streak and fabulous week. Bush! He's back! Not that he ever went anywhere! And the American people love him! Yay!

2,500 dead troops doesn't feed into that scenario, so it had to be shunted aside for 24 hours while they clanged their little tocsins. The people dying in Iraq are dying now for less than nothing. They're not defending our country, they're not bringing democracy to Iraq, and if their deaths come at an inconvenient time for the corrupt Bush administration, they won't even be acknowledged for a while.

After all, Stupidhead isn't going to run again. What they crave more than anything right now is favorable coverage, flashy headlines about a poll "bounce" that's less than the margin of error, and gabbling from the talking chuckleheads that supports their message o' the day.

Conservatives like to deride "politically correct" esteem building among youngsters, but they have this multi-billion dollar propanda machine spewing out all this nonsense solely to make Stupidhead feel better about himself and the miserable job he's doing. As long as Stupidhead is kept jollied along, nobody gets wished into the cornfield.

people do look at the polls. I think it does sway people.
People like to be on the 'winning side'...especially pigs!

That seems a little suspicious, doesn't it!?

I bet you're right... they didn't want to rain on their own parade.

Made the bells go off.

you. I just gave you your fifth recommendation. Kick to the GP.

:)

And now a moment of silence for that few, that band of "inconvenient" brothers.
Theirs was not to reason why. Theirs was but to do, and die after the damned presser.
:(

do)

I heard on CNN yesterday that a few of the 2500 were DOD, so could that be the disparity?