Atrios had this to say. I couldn't agree more.

I Have a Problem

When suicide bombings in Israel get front page (web page) attention in the NYT but the deaths of American soldiers in Iraq do not.

Note this isn't a comment on the media paying too much attention to Israel - it's about them not paying enough attention to our own goddamn dead.

Baghdad Blogger
The temperature is rising. And Baghdad, Basra and Nasiriyah have all erupted on the same day

I went to a press conference where our new one-month-president [the coalition provisional authority has a rotating chairman] was telling us about what they were up to. The press guy, at the request of the conference, was telling journalists that the instantaneous translation thingy has two channels; channel one for Arabic, channel two for English. I would like to add another channel: channel three for the truth. It keeps repeating one phrase: "We have no power, we have to get it approved by the Americans, we are puppets and the strings are too tight." I feel sorry for the guys on the council, some of them are actually very good and honest people and they have been put in a very difficult situation.

As usual, getting into these press bashes is an event in itself. You have to be there an hour early, you get searched a thousand times and, of course, as an Iraqi I get treated like shit. I have no idea why the American soldiers at the entrance to the convention centre [where the CPA press operation is] are so offensive towards Iraqis while they can be so nice to anyone with a foreign passport. I have to be the Zen master when the soldier at the gate gets condescending. The reporters of Iraq Today were not allowed to get to the press conference and they went ballistic. "This is my friggin' government, what do you mean I can't get in?" My sentiments exactly. Keep this image in your head: an American officer stopping you, an Iraqi, from attending the press conference your government is holding.
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In Basra, Worst May Be Ahead
As Southern Iraq Bakes, British Also Frustrated by Shortages

Bring us home': GIs flood US with war-weary emails
An unprecedented internet campaign waged on the frontline and in the US is exposing the real risks for troops in Iraq. Paul Harris and Jonathan Franklin report on rising fears that the conflict is now a desert Vietnam

Is Iraqi Intel Still Being Manipulated?
The sad and secretive tale of an Iraqi scientist  thanks to Talking Points Memo

Travels With Izzi

The conquest of this country, in the military equivalent of a hostile takeover, reached its flood tide with the triumphant tour of occupied Iraq by Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz, the war's policy theorist, and the (over)killing of Saddam Hussein's two mad sons, Uday and Qusay, by Special Operations forces and units of the 101st Airborne Division. Only when their father himself is killed will the coalition warriors be more exultant. "Among Iraqis," said Sa'ad Al-Izzi, an experienced interpreter who once reluctantly translated American movies for Uday, "that is when you'll see even more grieving and rejoicing."
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Third soldier in a week dies in sleep

From the Unted States Central Command website: Soldier dies in sleep (August 12, 2003), 1st Armored Division soldier found dead (August 10, 2003), and Soldier dies in sleep (August 8, 2003).

That's three soldiers dead in their sleep in four days. What the hell is going on over there?

Throw in another loss from heat stress, and another two lost in combat, and that's six dead in four days.

But you wouldn't know it from the news, would you?
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