I sense more censorship. I hope that is not the case and we are not losing the usual 1 or more soldiers a day but I have not noticed any headlines of soldiers killed in Iraq for a few days now. Makes me think the military is becoming more aggressive with the media over there or the media is just afraid to leave the cozy confines of their barracks.

Doesn't the military first have to be aggressive with the media before it becomes "more aggressive"?

We'll see, but if the President or Rummie allude to it, I'd be very suspicious.

Rummie: "Well, haven't you guys noticed? Nobody has died in a few days now."
PB: "You're a good Secretary of Defense."

It could be a calm before a storm. The insurgents could be grouping and preparing for a large scale attack. Who knows?

A reporter was shot and killed because his camera was mistaken for a rocket launcher, I know war can fog the mind and cause accidents like that but then there are also reporters being detained and threatened in the battle zones. That to me is aggression. We are not, for the most part, seeing what is really going on over there.

How are they being threatened? What were they trying to do?

They were trying to film wounded soldiers, all part of covering the battle, but guns were pointed at them and they were told not to film.

Sounds just like Israel.

I'll give the reporters credit for doing their thing, but they must realize that the military has to be concerned for there safety too, making them a liability. What disturbs me is how many of these "threats" are needless or intentional.

The 'w' regime has been trying to get the media to stop "a daily body count" for months now, but they've gotten especially ugly lately as the election draws nearer and the idiot-in-chief's poll numbers collapse.
They have refused from the beginning to give daily or weekly or total numbers of Iraqis killed. Occassionally you'll here a count from a specific incident, such as when they stormed Najaf the other day - the count was 30 Iraqis, I think.

Here's today's American and the rest deaths - you can still see the individual incident blips on the crawls at the bottom of the cable news channels too:
Daily Look at U.S. Military Iraq Deaths
Thu May 13,10:53 PM ET

By The Associated Press

As of Thursday, May 13, 773 U.S. service members have died since the beginning of military operations in Iraq last year, according to the Department of Defense. Of those, 563 died as a result of hostile action and 210 died of non-hostile causes.

The British military has reported 58 deaths; Italy, 17; Spain, eight; Bulgaria, six; Ukraine, four; Poland, three; Thailand, two; Denmark, El Salvador Estonia and the Netherlands have reported one each.

Since May 1, 2003, when President Bush declared that major combat operations in Iraq had ended, 635 U.S. soldiers have died — 454 as a result of hostile action and 181 of non-hostile causes, according to the military's numbers.
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The latest deaths reported by U.S. Central Command:

_ A soldier was killed Wednesday when an explosive struck a convoy in Baghdad.

_ Two Marines were killed in Iraq's Anbar province, one Wednesday and the second on Thursday.
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The latest identification reported by the Pentagon:

_ Army Spc. Jeffrey R. Shaver, 26, Maple Valley, Wash.; killed Wednesday by an explosive in Baghdad, Iraq; assigned to the Army National Guards 1st Battalion, 161st Infantry; Spokane, Wash.




"Look, I know what I believe, and what I believe is right".....gwb to G-8 leader assembly 2001

"You saw the movie "High Noon"? We're Gary Cooper".......Don Kagen, one of the principal authors of PNAC, the handbook of 'w's war-monger policies

can't you just SEE JP5 gritting her tooth and swearing at me for posting the TRUTH??

(*)(*)(*)(*) DBG that must of taken at least ten minutes.

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...civilian casualities. Non-Iraqi civilian casualities, there have been quite some of them too. I think it was a month ago that two Finnish business men were gunned down "mob style" in Baghdad, not a word in the press, except in Finland for a day or two.