Re: [Marxism] Deaths of U.S. and ‘coalition’ troops significantly increase in 2009

["Billy O'Connor" <billyoc@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 11:05 AM, Politicus E. <epoliticus@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> There has been a significant increase in the total number of deaths of
> U.S. and ‘coalition’ troops during 2009 and a corresponding paucity of
> reportage on this issue. After searching LexisNexis, I found no story
> in the major U.S. dailies about this fact. Yet the data are clear,
> i.e., deaths of U.S. and ‘coalition’ troops have attained a local
> maximum. During the period 2002-2008, I note that the highest number
> of deaths were in 2008 (77 fatalities). But there have been 117
> fatalities so far in 2009, considering only the first five months of
> 2009.
>
> (Blog entry includes chart.)
>
> Interested comrades can read the full entry at http://bit.ly/NBUXq.

I heard Doug Henwood say once that you're a true empire when your wars
slip under the radar.  Now that the leaders of the anti-war movement
have been safely folded into the Democratic cocktail party scene, we
can concentrate on moving beyond all that protesting.

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