posterchild
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April 30 Nightline
This was the controversial show when Ted Koppel read the names of (nearly) all the US servicepeople killed in Iraq.
This was a long overdue aspect of the war which has been ignored.
Just as the Russian government did with its war with Afghanistan in the early 1980s, so has the U.S. government kept the ugly details of this war as much a secret as possible, fearful that an informed electorate will not tolerate for long what it hasn't been shown to date.
It is not enough to hear numbers. To appreciate the gravity of war, one has to see the faces. Then when you read the ages that go with faces, and you consider that the primary objective was to rid Saddam's regime of WMDs which turned out not to exist, you realize what an awful waste this adventure has been --- and continues to be.
Along with the lost soldier are the 2, 3 or perhaps 5 grieving family members left behind.
The very least we can do for those fallen is to acknowledge them.
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5/3/2004, 11:48 am
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