FOX NEWS' BRIT HUME was all so eager to point out how violence is down in Anbar Province in Iraq that he couldn't bring himself on the Monday FOX NEWS SPECIAL REPORT show to make a mention that 17 U.S. soldiers have been KILLED in Iraq in the first half of June.
Hume also failed to tell his audience the reason the violence is down in Anbar Province has NOTHING to do with the U.S. military. What it has to do with is the tribal leaders inside of Anbar Province got together and tossed Al Qaeda out of the province.
Hume made it seem like the United States military had swept through Anbar Province ridding the province of all terrorists which is totally false.
Hume, who NEVER served a day of his life in the United States military, also failed to mention U.S. troops have pulled back from Anbar Province because the tribal leaders have taken over security of Anbar Province.
In Brit Hume's rush to make it sound as though this was a major military victory for the United States, Hume should have done his homework. If he had, he would have known most of the U.S. troops have been pulled out of Anbar and moved into other "hot spots."
If there are no U.S. troops to speak of left in Anbar Province it only stands to reason the U.S. casualties would be down, a point Brit Hume failed to mention in his "glowing" report on Anbar Province and how U.S. casualties are down in Anbar Province.
The saddest part of this kind of shoddy reporting is there are thousands of FOX NEWS viewers who also have never spent one day in the uniform of any branch of the United States military and they don't know how military operations are conducted.While BRIT HUME was boasting about how American deaths were down in Anbar Province, the following list provides details of American deaths in Iraq for the first half of June.
Apparently to BRIT HUME and FOX NEWS their deaths mean absolutely nothing and are not worth mentioning on FOX NEWS.
COMMENTARY BY BILL CORCORAN, EDITOR OF CORKSPHERE, and former Cpl. (E-4), United States Army Combat Engineers.
Click on names of each American killed in Iraq for further details which BRIT HUME and FOX NEWS feels is not important enough to mention.
SOURCE: http://icasualties.org/oif/prdDetails.aspx?hndRef=4-2008
Date
Total
Name
Place of Death - Province
Cause of Death
16-Jun-2008
1
US: 1 UK: 0 Other: 0
US
NAME NOT RELEASED YET
Al Hillah - Babil
Hostile - hostile fire - IED attack
12-Jun-2008
1
US: 1 UK: 0 Other: 0
US
Sergeant John D. Aragon
Kadamiyah - Baghdad
Hostile - hostile fire - IED attack
11-Jun-2008
3
US: 3 UK: 0 Other: 0
US
Lance Corporal Kelly E. C. Watters
Al Anbar Province
Hostile - hostile fire
US
Lance Corporal Javier Perales Jr.
Fallujah - Anbar
Non-hostile
US
NAME NOT RELEASED YET
Baghdad
Non-hostile
10-Jun-2008
1
US: 1 UK: 0 Other: 0
US
Sergeant Steve A. McCoy
Brooke Army Medical Center, San Antonio, - Baghdad
Hostile - hostile fire - IED attack
09-Jun-2008
1
US: 1 UK: 0 Other: 0
US
Specialist Thomas F. Duncan III
Sinjar - Ninawa
Hostile - hostile fire
08-Jun-2008
1
US: 1 UK: 0 Other: 0
US
Staff Sergeant Tyler E. Pickett
Kirkuk - At-Ta'mim
Hostile - hostile fire - IED attack (VBIED)
07-Jun-2008
1
US: 1 UK: 0 Other: 0
US
Sergeant 1st Class David R. Hurst
Baghdad (eastern part)
Hostile - hostile fire - IED attack
04-Jun-2008
5
US: 4 UK: 0 Other: 1
GE
Squad Commander Irakli Kordzaia
Diyala Province
Hostile - hostile fire
US
NAME NOT RELEASED YET
Baghdad (South of)
Hostile - hostile fire - small arms fire
US
Sergeant Cody R. Legg
Al Hawijah - At-Ta'mim
Hostile - hostile fire - small arms fire
US
Specialist Jonathan D. A. Emard
Al Hawijah - At-Ta'mim
Hostile - hostile fire - small arms fire
US
Sergeant Shane P. Duffy
Al Hawijah - At-Ta'mim
Hostile - hostile fire - small arms fire
03-Jun-2008
2
US: 2 UK: 0 Other: 0
US
Private 1st Class Joshua E. Waltenbaugh
Taji - Baghdad
Non-hostile
US
Specialist Quincy J. Green
Tikrit - Salah ad Din
Non-hostile
01-Jun-2008
2
US: 2 UK: 0 Other: 0
US
Specialist Christopher D. McCarthy
FOB Ramadi - Anbar
Non-hostile
US
Specialist Justin R. Mixon
Baghdad (northeastern part)
Hostile - hostile fire - IED attack (EFP)
Total
18
US: 17 UK: 0 Other: 1
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