What Happens in Dover, Stays in Dover
Flag Draped Coffins At Dover AFB
Let me clarify this post to those who have been upset by it. I prefaced my post with the term 'Foil Hat Item'; which should tell you that I don't accept it at face value. However, I did find it's suggestion to be intriguing. My intention was to initiate a thought process and discussion as it has on progressive radio talkshows and blogs this week. That is until the mainstream news media begins to do their job and begins to ask the logical questions. Why is the press not allowed to photograph the coffins arriving at Dover? Is it because more than 1,700 have arrived? Why do we never hear reports of the troops who later died from their injuries at the military hospitals? Ask yourself these obvious questions. Contact your senators, reps, and local media and ask them as well.
Original post:
Here's my 'Foil Hat Item' of the week or rather I hope it isn't true. This item was posted on Arianna Huffington's blog 'The Huffington Post' on June 18, 2005. A site entitled 'TBR News' is reporting that the Bush Administration is giving us a false death toll for our US Troops. TBR states: "U.S. Military Personnel who died in German hospitals or en route to German hospitals have not previously been counted." TBR notes that the "Department of Defense lists currently being very quietly circulated indicate almost 9,000 dead."
posted by Lisa @ 10:32 PM
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I think you might consider withdrawing this post if read some backgound about TBRnews.org.
This story is false. It's an urban legend. You do a disservice to everyone opposed to Bush by treating this story seriously. It feeds into the misperceptions of critics. Ashley (above) is correct: "Walter Storch" is a pseudonym for Peter Stahl, a.k.a. Gregory Douglas. He is an anti-semitic, Holocaust-denying, Nazi sympathizer, among other things. Here is a MUST READ link on DailyKos about him: www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2005/5/4/15748/99064
You should be more careful Coco.
This post has a disclaimer of being the 'foil hat item' with a wish that it isn't true. It's posted on various blogs this week. Read carefully.
You have to consider that the news reports of troop deaths is always the same '4 troops died in Tikrit, in Baghdad,' etc. You never hear that a soldier later died from their injuries in military hospital. How many have died from their injuries? We know how many have died in the field. Who knows
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