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| Video- Fox News lies about supposed lack of US casualties in Iraq
by Arlen Parsa
Fox News is claiming there were no US casualties in Iraq this past week. Too bad it’s apparently not true, according to the Pentagon.
On FOX and Friends this morning 10/26/07 host Brian Kilmeade, teasing a later segment with FOX’s favorite Iran-Contra figure Oliver North, announced that “not one US military, member of the military, was killed in Iraq for the first time since 2004 this past week, and almost no one’s talking about it.” Probably because it ain’t so.
The website Iraq Coalition Casualty Count has been tracking US and coalition deaths since the beginning of the war. Their figures are confirmed by the Defense Department and the over 1,000 deaths of American contractors in Iraq are reported separately. According to their figures, four Americans have been confirmed killed by the DoD in Iraq since October 19 (one week ago) and two killed soldiers’ names have not yet been released, for a total of six, so I don’t know what the hell he’s talking about.
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After reciting the positive stats, he said “It sounds like I’m making this up!” Well, yes it does.
Mmm, yeah, I would be loathe to believe anything that comes out of Brian Kilmeade’s mouth anyways (or as Stephen Colbert likes to call him, “brown haired guy who’s not black haired guy who’s not Steve Doocy”).
[…] course, Kilmeade was making up some of that, and he and his Faux compadres have been routinely predicting less violence in Iraq approximately […]