About
	Contact Us
	Articles
	Topic Index
	Reports
	Quotes
	On the Web
	Links
	TW Tracker
	Support

Casualties

• July 8 -- "America's Longest, Deadliest Sustained Conflict Since Vietnam"
Monica Davey files a baleful report on military fatalities. After the obligatory Vietnam reference, she notes: "While violence has escalated in Iraq through days of uncertainty…." Yet military deaths have been in decline for two months.

• June 29 -- Iraqi Sovereignty and…U.S. Fatalities
Dexter Filkins’ lead story on the transfer of Iraqi sovereignty makes sure to include the U.S. death toll.

• March 17 -- Offering the (In)Complete Story from Iraq
Jeffrey Gettleman's front-page story uses a photo of a blinded Iraqi boy as an emotional launching point for a piece on the accidental deaths of civilians during the Iraqi war. But what of the civilians who were tortured and killed during Saddam Hussein's 24-year thugocracy, ended by the Bush administration?

• November 12 -- Dead Poets Society Takes Bush on Over Iraq
Adam Cohen salutes World War I poet Wilfred Owen in order to scorn Bush's conduct of the Iraq war: "Owen was right that an honorable approach to war requires both ably leading troops on the battlefield, and reporting honestly what occurs there. The Bush administration, however, is resisting this honorable approach….He avoids mentioning the American dead...”

• November 4 -- Krugman Cuts off Nethercutt
Columnist Paul Krugman is the latest to pass along a skewed quote from Republican Rep. George Nethercutt.

• September 23 -- The Times Marks Its Own “May Day”
May 1, the date Bush declared an end to active military operations in Iraq, and one that lives in infamy at the Times.

• April 4 -- It’s Not Fair
“The number of casualties so far in the push on Baghdad has been uneven,” says Times reporter Anthony DePalma.

• April 4 -- Bring Out Your Dead
Times TV reporter Alessandra Stanley frets over the lack of dead bodies on the tube: “Despite all the sobering lessons learned over the past week, there were few images of civilian casualties or dead American soldiers during yesterday's high.” 

E-mail TimesWatch Director, Clay Waters, with TimesWatch feedback at cwaters@mediaresearch.org