This Soldier Did Not Survive Today. 2060 DEAD for LIES. *graphic*

[leftchick]

Medical personnel rush a U.S. Army soldier who was shot in the head through the Air Force hospital in Balad, 80 kilometers (50 miles) north of Baghdad, Iraq, Thursday, Nov. 10, 2005. The soldier later died during surgery. Some 96-percent of the hospital's patients survive their injuries. (AP Photo/Jacob Silberberg)



Medical personnel care for a U.S. Army soldier who was shot in the head, at the Air Force hospital in Balad, 80 kilometers (50 miles) north of Baghdad, Iraq, Thursday, Nov. 10, 2005. The soldier later died during surgery. (AP Photo/Jacob Silberberg)



A Yahoo caption is the only place I have seen this soldier mentioned today. No story reported anywhere.

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http://news.yahoo.com/photos/ss/events/iraq/082701iraqplane/im:/051110/481/jls10111101212

[GreenPartyVoter]

1. Stupid, stupid George W (W stands for war) Bu$h!!!

[Punkingal]

2. Someone's husband, son, brother or father...

Or all of the above. :cry: These pictures just rip me up...I never see one without crying.

[tk2kewl]

3. all of the medical personnel are completely expressionless

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[MnFats]

5. professionals. doing what they have to do to try and save him.

the emotions will come later. for some much later, believe me.

[w8liftinglady]

15. In their defense

I've been an ICU nurse for almost 25 years,and you really can't show emeotion at the time of a crisis.You have to detach yourself from the situation,and go into robot mode,literally.I have resuscitated literally thousands of patients,and I guarantee,I visited each of those codes later(sometimes in a not-so-healthy way),and some,even 15-20 years later,still bring tears to my eyes.

[...of J.Temperance]

4. ANOTHER life lost for a LIE...NOTE the AP whoring though

Even though they point out that this soldier died...they HAVE to add the little whoring tag line of:

"Some 96-percent of the hospitals patients survive their injuries."

So whilst they show a soldier that is dying and that in fact died, they STILL deliberately play down the overall deaths, by adding that little whoring tag line.

Pigs.

[marylanddem]

7. wonder if that tagline (censorship?) was the price they had to pay

for access to the hospital. Still whoring,though, I agree.

[...of J.Temperance]

9. Well you know...we'd just LIKE the WHOLE TRUTH for ONCE

They should STOP whoring and get some humanity and compassion and decency and integrity.

How many deaths is it going to take, before these mediawhores stand up and say enough is enough, we're NOT whoring anymore, we're going to show the FULL TRUTH.

When are they going to DEFY the Pentagons and the WHs gagging order and SHOW the dead coming home, show the caskets.

SHOW THEM you fucking whores...they DESERVE to be SHOWN, they DIED for your little jumped-up Nazi shithead Junior, they're DEAD because of your Tinpot Dictators LIES.

96-percent survive their injuries, give me a break. 70% of the LIVING soldiers coming home that have been injured, have brain injuries...why doesn't AP print THAT little tag line? Oh well, we know WHY don't we?

WH cuts off access to press...they treat the press like shit anyhow, so the press shouldn't really care about upsetting the fucking WH.

[rkc3]

8. Tell the families of the 4% who didn't survive about how many live.

I can tell you it won't mean a hill of beans.

[...of J.Temperance]

11. Exactly...AP is downplaying and trivializing the dead

AP is constantly on the Mediawhore Express...AP is constantly on the Good Ship Lollipop. It's a DISGRACE.

Yes, I find all these deaths and the pictures of the dead and the pictures of the family funerals very upsetting...but you know, I'm a very passionate and hot-blooded person and things like this really piss me off and make my blood BOIL.

Damn Them To Hell For Eternity...ALL of the mediawhores and their Nazi jack-booted Masters that are Bush Inc.

[GrpCaptMandrake]

6. "Shot in the head"

One wonders if this is another of "Juba's" victims, Juba being the name Marines have given the deadly accurate sniper in Baghdad that they can neither find nor defend against.

[tatertop]

10. We haven't heard about that in a while.

I suppose there are some snipers left over from
the Saddam days. And I suppose they are all madder than hell by now.

[DistressedAmerican]

12. Had To Look This One Up. Here's Wikipedia's Take.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juba_(sniper)

"Juba" is the nickname that coalition forces in Iraq have given to a member of the Iraqi insurgency,member of Islamic army in Iraq, He is an accurate sniper, having killed and wounded up to several dozen US soldiers. He fires only once and moves from his position, leaving behind little evidence of his whereabouts.

The only indication that Juba is the same individual each time in these incidents is a single bullet casing and a note left behind at the location where he is believed to have been. The message, in Arabic, "What has been taken in blood cannot be regained except by blood. Baghdad Sniper". These items were found only after nearby buildings were scoured by US forces. "Juba's" existence, however, is not proven. He may not exist, or he could be a combination of many different insurgents. It is also possible that Coalition forces have killed one or more "Jubas," but each time a new one emerges.

He waits for soldiers to dismount, or stand up in a Humvee turret, and aims for gaps in their body armour, the lower spine, ribs or above the chest. He has killed from 200 metres away. "It was the perfect shot," the battalion commander, Lt Col Kevin Farrell, said of one incident - "Blew out the spine."


GOD THESE POOR KIDS!

[leftchick]

13. I had not heard that one before...

Why would it have to be just one sniper? I would imagine there are plenty. I do know a lot of marines were being picked off by snipers in al-Anbar.

[leftchick]

14. This poor guy has still not been counted.

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