This question is not meant to be insensitive, but I am wondering why a mere 132 deaths for the UK, and a more significant 3000 deaths for the US is such a media focal point? In previous wars, many countries, the UK, and US included have suffered many, many times that figure of casualties, sometimes in days, and yet there was not the furore then as there is now.
I am not trying to belittle the work of the armed forces, or their efforts, but they knew the job before they signed on (except in the case of conscripts...) , are in the main intelligent people, and they knew that it was not going to be all skydiving and snowboarding like the army adverts would have us believe. Presumably their relatives, knew as well, and yet there are still people touting the deaths of loved ones as Blairs/ Bushs fault. Why? It is the soldiers job to fight. And occassionally, that means people get hurt. I value their sacrifices, but I wish the media would not keep giving us a front page kill count.
2007-02-10
01:19:12
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