CASUALTIES IN IRAQ: THE HUMAN COST OF OCCUPATION

The media in the United States no longer provides data on the number of US casualties in Iraq, and never tells the American public how many Iraqi citizens have been killed since President Bush, Vice President Cheney and the "White House Warmongers" decided it was a bright idea to invade a country that had absolutely NOTHING to do with the 9/11 attack.

http://antiwar.com/casualties/ (click on this link for detailed stats on casualties from the war)

To add insult to injury, President Bush won't even allow any photos taken of the dead servicemen returning to Dover AFB in flag-draped coffins.

It wasn't long ago, a family of one service member killed in Iraq managed to get on the Dover AFB as their son was returned from Iraq.

They thought there would be an honor guard to help remove his flag-draped coffin from the military aircraft, but instead there was no military honor guard and his remains were unloaded with the rest of the baggage from the baggage compartment of the military plane.

That is a clear indication of how President Bush and Vice President Cheney feel about the brave young men and women who serve in the Armed Forces of the United States of America.

Is it any wonder the recruiters are having to use all kinds of sneaky methods to try and sign someone up for the service? They even go so far as offering to give them a down payment on their house, and a $40,000 signing bonus to just to get them to put their name on the dotted line.

Who in their right mind would want to nothing but human cannon fodder in a war where you can't tell the enemy from the good guys because nobody wears a uniform except the US military, which makes them prime targets for the insurgents and terrorists.

And the worse is yet to come!

If you have been reading this blog, you know Muqtada al-Sadr and the head of Al Qaeda in Iraq are promising an all out bloodbath aimed at US troops---mostly in Baghdad. The attacks are expected to begin in two week, if not sooner.

General David Petraeus still lives in the delusional world that he is in charge of multi-national forces or the "coalition of the willing" in Iraq, but a quick run through the list of troops in Iraq indicates over 98 percent of the military personnel in Iraq are American soldiers or Marines.

There is no "coalition of the willing." That is another myth just like the myth that the "surge" has been a success when 55 Iraqis were KILLED on Sunday ALONE, and another 78 WOUNDED.

The link above provides a lot of information you will NEVER see in the mainstream media, and most of all on FOX NEWS, because they are all in bed with the Bush White House.

The Iraq War has become the second "Forgotten War." The Korean War was the first "Forgotten War."

I should know. I was a Cpl. (E-4), Squad Ldr, United States Army Combat Engineers and a Korean War veteran with an Honorable Discharge from the Armed Forces of the United States of America.

Incidentally, there is ONLY one person, Colin Powell, in the original Bush White House who took us to war that can claim they have an Honorable Discharge from the Armed Forces of the United States of America.

They all were too chicken to serve in the military or as Cheney did use six deferments to get out of the draft during the Vietnam War years.

Bill Corcoran, editor of CORKSPHERE at http://corksphere.blogspot.com/