Only 1 In 10 U.S. Dead In Iraq Are Reported

2007-04-25
TBRNews.org
April 30, 2007
GlobalResearch

BAGHDAD -- "Six days ago, I was in an armed convoy driving through the McCain-safe streets of Baghdad when a non-existent rocket, made right here and not in Tehran, blasted into a truck carrying fifteen GIs.

We had to stop, could not turn around because there were vehicles behind us, frantically trying to flee in all directions, and so I saw what were the shredded remains of all fifteen soldiers littering the street and smoldering...

There was not a word of this in our media at home and the official casualty lists, posted on the net didn't mention any of them. There are fifteen that never got reported.

Fellow in the next building from me does the casualty reports for transmitting back to the States and he says they publish the names of one in ten.

This has been a very bad month with over 300 known dead!

That doesn't cover those with faces missing or legs up on a local roof, feeding the birds.

This place has become a living hell, what with occasional snipers shooting our men inside the "really safe" Green Zone, setting off bombs in the "heavily guarded" Iraqi government compound and blowing up the hand puppet legislators at lunch, mortar rounds from the "defeated insurgents'" slamming down at all times of the day and night, and so on..."