Will the US State Media EVER...

-Point out the FACT that bush's "coalition" was and is nothing but a Big Lie?

-Point out the FACT that no nation in the world was pro-invasion?

-Point out the FACT that bush rushed our troops to "future threat" war, WITHOUT enough EQUIPMENT?

-Point out that the latest polls from Iraq show over 90% of Iraqis still view us as occupiers and hate our guts?

-Point out that bushCartel are building PERMANENT BASES in Iraq?

-Point out that bush's hand-picked "prime minister" Allawi is a terrorist?

So many "wea culpas" and the US State Media just carry on lying and covering up for the bushlers.

POINT OUT THAT BUSH AND CHENEY LIED TO EVERYONE REGARDING THE THREAT FROM IRAQ AND ITS CONNECTION TO 911/AL QAEDA BEFORE THE WAR!

The media is numbers driven, and this is a number that will get considerable play. I hope it's one that forces some of the media to look back and examine how we got to that point.

This number and no end in sight is gonna wake a lot of other people up as well. Straight out, if this regime is re-selected, there's gonna be a continuation, if not an escalation on their profiteering wars that will require a draft. Forbid if they think they have a mandate (and it won't take much for them to think so) and we could be in for some dark times. Paint this picture and the horror in even the most dyed in the wool Repugnican whose either draft age or has a draft-age kid is evident.

Right now this regime is sitting on a brewing mess in Iraq. Najaf was the latest retreat which means there are now two cities, plus most of Baghdad that is outside the control of either the U.S. or Allawi. The insurgents in Iraq have the same calendars we do...let's see if they exploit it.

Now I predict some minor handwringing and then the long march to the next round of handwringing and the next round number: 10,000.

Using your assumption, and one I wish not to share, but do...this would place this election not as a replay of the issues of a 1972 or 68...where getting out of the war was the issue, but of 64 where it was how far and how much. That means the end of this Middle East incursion, and there will be an end, will be many, many years away. Yep, then we look at that 10,000 figure.

Even in a protracted war, I think your number can be high considering the advances in medical science (we should emphazise the number maimed and injured) so many who used to die of wounds now survive...or at least parts of them. However, if this regime gets emblodened, re-institutes a draft and expands this endless war for war profiteering, then we could finally see some of the social upheaval we saw in the 60's.

I'm still not seeing the activity on college campuses I did in the 60's (especially the '65-67 era) that led to the rise in college unrest and social upheval. Sadly it's when this war really starts coming home...when virtually everyone knows a maimed or dead soldier that something may happen. I just wonder how far along this nation is to really being fed up with this invasion.