Three more US soldiers were killed Wednesday in southern Iraq. Military officials declined to provide details beyond that the deaths came during a “hostile event” that happened that day. It comes in the wake of previous denials that anything at all happened.
The deaths bring the overall toll in June to 15, making it the single deadliest month in two years, tied with June 2009. It is also a dramatic increase over the month of May, during which only two US troops were slain.
The dramatic increase in deaths has fueled new accusations that Shi’ite militias, representing the nation’s religious majority, are stepping up attacks because the US has insisted it wants to keep troops in the nation for years after the December deadline.
And it does seem that the US has worn out its welcome in Iraq, with the Basra Provincial Council even going so far as to formally bar US troops from operating in their key coastal province, as well as ordering them out of the airport.
And what does our mainstream "corporate" media tell us about all this? Pravda reigns in the US.
I bet there aren't even a dozen of the Fawning Corporate Media still reporting (if they ever did that!!) from Iraq. The elite have decided that the less the sub-elite class hear of what is still going on in Iraq the better. It's only the families of the less than .1% of the population that are attuned to what is going on in Iraq. The USG learned their lessons well after allowing the media free rein in Viet Nam. Now, the only media allowed in the AOR are those who sign away their journalistic rights.
Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz, etc – ALL should be on trial for WAR CRIMES!
As to the media / press – it was Goebbels who stated – "the press is a piano on which the Government plays its tune".
Better that Americans know what is going on with bimbo Lindsay Lohan than what is going on in America and in the world – right?
DOD just reported the 16th US combat death this month in Helmand province for June, 2011. That brings the total US deaths in June to 46 in Afghanistan.
This is going to backfire on America and France and Britan and all countrys that support America in all the illegal wars.Countrys like mine Canada needs to stay out of all wars unless attacked.And not a fauls Flag like 9/11.I could see America useing a fauls flag to get countrys involved thinking it was a terrorist attack.It would be a terrorist attack an American one.Countrys need to wake by supporting the American you are supporting the worlds strongest and biggest terrorist threat.Countys whos governments support the US in illegal wars are dumb and in time they will be the ones that suffer.By there own citizens to how seem much smarter than there governments.Do they really think they will get away with all these murders.In time they will regret there evils.