While the Cable News Networks and the national media are giving lots of air and screen time to Cheney's little problem (and rightly so), another Marine was killed in Iraq. On Feb. 14, 2006 the AP reports

A roadside bomb killed a U.S. Marine in western Baghdad on Tuesday in one of two attacks that also wounded six coalition military personnel, the military said.

Strangely, the announcement doesn't show up on the front pages of the NYT, CNN, FOXNews, etc. The death of a US Marine in an unjust war seems to be not worth the time or attention of the national media. It should be. I guess "supporting" the troops means ignoring when they are killed in an unjust war. Marines must only be useful to BushCo and FOXNews when serving as photo op backgrounds. But hey, the Olympics are on.
posted by Idle Crank at 2/14/2006 07:20:00 PM