Thursday, October 02, 2003

Three U.S. Soldiers Killed in Iraq

Yahoo! News - Three U.S. Soldiers Killed in Iraq Attacks

I'm confused and I've lost all sense of the number of casualties. I think that instead of news articles citing one or two or three killed on a given day, the media should just cite the running total in each story. So, given that the total now is 312, today's news might read something like this:

American Casualties, numbers 310 - 312, were killed in Iraq today, where the Perpetual War Against Fear rages on. Number 312 was a woman. Their deaths brought to 90 the number of American soldiers killed by the Ambiguous Enemy since Big Brother declared an end to major combat May 1.

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