Drudge Lies Again

Is there something wrong with Matt Drudge? He said that since the surge, American fatalities decreased. Do you think he gets his information from the spin doctors of the Republican party?

Here is the truth, as reported by ICasualties:
US Deaths by Month
March 2007 (so far) 39
February 2007 80
January 2007 83

If you go to the site listed above and click on the bar chart, you can actually get the names of those who died in Iraq. I cannot believe that people are stupid enough to believe anything written by Drudge.

Update: It is 1pm and Sen. Lindsey Graham (SC-R) is on the floor of the U.S. Senate speaking about why the U.S. should remain in Iraq f-o-r-e-v-e-r. Call his office. If you can't talk to a human staff member, at least leave him a message (press 2) and tell him why he is wrong.
(202) 224-5972

The Reality of War

What is this war doing to our men and women in uniform? An exhibition tries to show us the results of war. Hinessight:

....The Sacrifice," by award-winning war photographer James Nachtwey, shows U.S. soldiers in Iraq receiving frantic medical treatment in a helicopter and medics working to repair the carnage of war at a field hospital.

That chaos is shown beside more tranquil views, such as a returned serviceman with a prosthetic leg holding his surfboard after riding a curl and a one-legged young man chatting with his fiancee during a break from his rehabilitation regimen.

"This is one of the costs of this war. The money is the easy part. This, the injuries and the people that are lost, is the real cost," Nachtwey said while hanging the exhibit, which opens on Friday at 401 Projects.

"It's important for the people of our country to understand the nature of the sacrifice being made.

"These are mainly young people, mainly in their 20s, athletic, active people who have sustained a great loss and want to move on with their lives."

Since the Iraq war began with the U.S.-led invasion in March 2003, there have been 3,125 U.S. personnel killed and 23,417 wounded....

....The exhibit includes a 35-foot-long (10.6-meter) print comprising 60 images taken in a field hospital in Iraq, aimed at giving what Nachtwey called "a sense of being on the edge of chaos and control in the emergency room."

But it also includes more upbeat images -- a returned veteran stretching after a run on an athletic prosthetic leg and another recovered soldier, with two prosthetic legs and a prosthetic arm waiting his turn at a golf tee.

Nachtwey, who spent two months taking pictures in a field hospital in Iraq, said the preponderance of leg injuries in his exhibit reflected the human cost of the conflict.

"There are a lot of leg amputations.....

Here is the article from National Geographic about Nachtwey's report called The Heroes The Healing. A photo gallery about the wounded is here. We should force those who support the war in Iraq to view these pictures. Better yet, e-mail the photo gallery link http://www7.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0612/feature3/gallery1.html to those who support the war in the House and Senate.