Deaths in Iraq Take a Steady Toll at Home (NYT on 22 in last 2 weeks)

[RamboLiberal]

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/02/national/02CASU.html

In the last two weeks, 22 American soldiers have given their lives to the occupation of Iraq, a platoon of 21 men and 1 woman cut down to a stack of photographs by accidents, illness and the rising insurgency.

There is Lt. David Bernstein, a soldier's soldier who was killed two weeks ago and buried on Friday at the United States Military Academy here. As his mother sat with a folded flag in her lap and his father accepted a Bronze Star, even the Green Berets cried.

And there is Sgt. Aubrey Bell, the 280-pound Alabama National Guardsman, who drove a forklift and ate mayonnaise sandwiches, and who was shot to death in front of a police station.

And Pvt. Rachel Bosveld, the 19-year-old military policewoman who loved to draw forest scenes and was silenced by mortars.

And Sgt. Paul J. Johnson, a paratrooper who could imagine no fate better than leaping into the night sky, who died after being burned by a bomb.

[tabasco]

1. Republicans and their enablers have this blood on ther hands.

I hope the guilt gnaws at every person that voted for the clearly unqualified Bush. The administration is completely corrupt, and does not care about these soldiers. All the Bush cabal cares about is enriching the ruling classes. All republicans should think about their part in this disaster. I hope the ghosts of the dead haunt them forever. This bloodshed was not necessary.

[donhakman]

2. one a day now 3 a day

Donald said Iraq violence is no worse than DC