FOX NEWS' BRIT HUME DOESN'T MENTION 17 U.S. SOLDIERS KILLED IN IRAQ. HUME BOASTS ABOUT ANBAR, BUT FAILS TO SAY FEW U.S. TROOPS LEFT IN ANBAR

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

BREAKING NEWS MONDAY: TWO EXPLOSIONS IN BAGHDAD HIT EDUCATION BUILDING: UNDETERMINED NUMBER OF CASUALTIES

Two explosions rattle Education Faculty, leave casualties

Baghdad - Voices of Iraq
Monday , 16 /06 /2008 Time 12:13:49
http://www.aswataliraq.info/look/english/article.tpl?IdLanguage=1&IdPublication=4&NrArticle=82596&NrIssue=2&NrSection=1


Baghdad, Jun 16, (VOI) – Two explosions rattled northern Baghdad's Faculty of Education on Monday morning, leaving an unknown number of casualties among students and security guards, according to eyewitnesses.

"A blast occurred at the entrance of the Faculty of Education in northern Baghdad's al-Adhamiya area, leaving an unknown number of casualties," one of the faculty's students told Aswat al-Iraq-Voices of Iraq- (VOI). "The blast might have been caused by an improvised explosive device (IED)," the student said.Earlier, another student told VOI that an explosion, whose cause remains unknown, killed a student and a security guard and wounded several students.No comment was immediately available from Iraqi authorities.

Iraqi university students began their end-of-term examinations two weeks ago.

PENTAGON ADMITS USE OF CHEMICAL WEAPONS ON FALLUJAH RESIDENTS HAS FALLOUT ON BABIES BORN IN THE IRAQI CITY

For all the talk about Saddam Hussein having WMD, or chemical weapons, it now turns out it was the United States that used chemical weapons on the attack on Fallujah, Iraq.

The use of White Phosphorous and other chemical weapons has caused a large number of babies born in Fallujah, Iraq to be suffering from all kinds of different respiratory illnesses.

Once again the United States has proven to be the one using chemical weapons, and any student of history knows the United States sold to Saddam Hussein chemical weapons when Iraq was fighting Iran during the Ronald Reagan administration. This is has been well documented and there are even pictures of former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld meeting with Saddam Hussein and shaking his hand when the sale of chemical weapons to Iraq was solidified.

COMMENTARY BY BILL CORCORAN, EDITOR OF CORKSPHERE

'Special Weapons' Have a Fallout on Babies

Inter Press ServiceBy Ali al-Fadhily and Dahr Jamail*FALLUJAH, Jun 12 (IPS) - Babies born in Fallujah are showing illnesses and deformities on a scale never seen before, doctors and residents say.

The new cases, and the number of deaths among children, have risen after "special weaponry" was used in the two massive bombing campaigns in Fallujah in 2004.

After denying it at first, the Pentagon admitted in November 2005 that white phosphorous, a restricted incendiary weapon, was used a year earlier in Fallujah.

In addition, depleted uranium (DU) munitions, which contain low-level radioactive waste, were used heavily in Fallujah. The Pentagon admits to having used 1,200 tonnes of DU in Iraq thus far.

Many doctors believe DU to be the cause of a severe increase in the incidence of cancer in Iraq, as well as among U.S. veterans who served in the 1991 Gulf War and through the current occupation.

"We saw all the colours of the rainbow coming out of the exploding American shells and missiles," Ali Sarhan, a 50-year-old teacher who lived through the two U.S. sieges of 2004 told IPS. "I saw bodies that turned into bones and coal right after they were exposed to bombs that we learned later to be phosphorus.

"The most worrying is that many of our women have suffered loss of their babies, and some had babies born with deformations."

"I had two children who had brain damage from birth," 28-year-old Hayfa' Shukur told IPS. "My husband has been detained by the Americans since November 2004 and so I had to take the children around by myself to hospitals and private clinics. They died. I spent all our savings and borrowed a considerable amount of money."

Shukur said doctors told her that it was use of the restricted weapons that caused her children's brain damage and subsequent deaths, "but none of them had the courage to give me a written report."

"Many babies were born with major congenital malformations," a paediatric doctor, speaking on condition of anonymity, told IPS. "These infants include many with heart defects, cleft lip or palate, Down's syndrome, and limb defects."

The doctor added, "I can say all kinds of problems related to toxic pollution took place in Fallujah after the November 2004 massacre."

Many doctors speak of similar cases and a similar pattern. The indications remain anecdotal, in the absence of either a study, or any available official records.

The Fallujah General Hospital administration was unwilling to give any statistics on deformed babies, but one doctor volunteered to speak on condition of anonymity -- for fear of reprisals if seen to be critical of the administration.

"Maternal exposure to toxins and radioactive material can lead to miscarriage and frequent abortions, still birth, and congenital malformation," the doctor told IPS. There have been many such cases, and the government "did not move to contain the damage, or present any assistance to the hospital whatsoever.

"These cases need intensive international efforts that provide the highest and most recent technologies that we will not have here in a hundred years," he added.

The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) expressed concern Mar. 31 about the lack of medical supplies in hospitals in Baghdad and Basra.

"Hospitals have used up stocks of vital medical items, and require further supplies to cope with the influx of wounded patients. Access to water remains a matter of concern in certain areas," the ICRC said in a statement.

A senior Iraqi health ministry official was quoted as saying Feb. 26 that the health sector is under "great pressure", with scores of doctors killed, an exodus of medical personnel, poor medical infrastructure, and shortage of medicines.

"We are experiencing a big shortage of everything," said the official, "We don't have enough specialist doctors and medicines, and most of the medical equipment is outdated.

"We used to get many spinal and head injures, but were unable to do anything as we didn't have enough specialists and medicines," he added. "Intravenous fluid, which is a simple thing, is not available all the time." He said no new hospitals had been built since 1986.

Iraqi Health Minister Salih al-Hassnawi highlighted the shortage of medicines at a press conference in Arbil in the Kurdistan region in the north Feb. 22. "The Iraqi Health Ministry is suffering from an acute shortage of medicines...We have decided to import medicines immediately to meet the needs."

He said the 2008 health budget meant that total expenditure on medicines, medical equipment and ambulances would amount to an average of 22 dollars per citizen.

But this is too late for the unknown number of babies and their families who bore the consequences of the earlier devastation. And it is too little to cover the special needs of babies who survived with deformations.

(*Ali, our correspondent in Baghdad, works in close collaboration with Dahr Jamail, our U.S.-based specialist writer on Iraq who has reported extensively from Iraq and the Middle East).