Bush’s News War: "In Baghdad, official control over the news is getting tighter. Journalists used to walk freely into the city’s hospitals and the morgue to keep count of the day’s dead and wounded. Now the hospitals have been declared off-limits and morgue officials turn away reporters who aren’t accompanied by a Coalition escort. Iraqi police refer reporters’ questions to American forces; the Americans refer them back to the Iraqis."

Again, we're not getting the true picture of what is going on Iraq. But at least some of the media are telling us that. What we need now is some politicians and soldiers to demand a true accounting of the injuires in Iraq. And not just of US troops. The US military needs to start counting Iraqi casualties and injuries. Surely the lives of those we 'liberated' are worth counting too?

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