Shouldn’t this be on every newspaper’s front page?
5 US Soldiers Killed in 24 Hours, 1 Wounded
Let’s see… if I click on the NYT article with the headline about a freed reporter, and I read all the way to the end of the article, and then I keep reading, there seems to be something WaPo has nothing at all about Iraq on it’s front web page.
I know that this isn’t exactly a scientific survey, and that headlines and articles may change later today, but this illustrates just how well W’s insistence on symbolically handing “sovereignty” to his Iraqi puppets earlier this summer has worked exactly as planned: American news coverage is down significantly, and with election and Olympics news further sapping attention, odds are that most citizens will remain blissfully unaware that American troops are still being killed at alarming rates.
How alarming? The fatality rate since the symbolic turnover has actually increased to over 2 killed per day.