Tainted Saints

Courtesy of This Week with George Stephanopolous and Crooks and Liars:

16 U.S soldiers were killed in Iraq and Afghanistan this week:

Army SGT Roberto D Sanchez, 24 of Satellite Beach, FL
Army SGT Aaron M Smith, 25, of Manhattan, KS
Army SPC Brandon A Owens, 21, of Memphis, TN
Army SSG Thomas D Rabjohn, 39, of Litchfield Park, AZ
Army SPC Paul E Andersen, 49, of Dowagiac, MI
Army CPT Benjamin A Sklaver, 32, of Medford, MA
Army PFC Alan H Newton Jr, 26, of Asheboro, NC
Army MAJ Tad T Hervas, 48, of Coon Rapids, MN
Army SGT Justin T Gallegos, 27, of Tucson, AZ
Army SGT Joshua M Hardt, 24, of Applegate, CA
Army SGT Joshua J Kirk, 30, of South Portland, ME
Army SGT Michael P Scusa, 22, of Villas, NJ
Army SPC Christopher T Griffin, 24, of Kincheloe, MI
Army SPC Stephan L Mace, 21, of Lovettsville, VA
Army PFC Kevin C Thomson, 22, of Reno, NV
Army SPC Kevin O Hill, 23, of Brooklyn, NY

This brings the total number of allied servicemembers killed in Iraq to 4,667, in Afghanistan, 1,453.

During this same week, Iraq Body Count listed 63 war-related Iraqi civilian deaths, and 17 war-related Afghani civilian deaths. Unfortunately, there is no record of the names of these people…

Um, we’re 6 months from surpassing America’s longest war — Vietnam. Do we just not care, anymore…?

‘Member when the MSM ”discovered” that there weren’t really WMD in Iraq, and, therefore, we invaded a sovereign nation based on a complete lie? Just insert Iran for Iraq, nuclear weapons for WMD, and Obama for Bush…

(Roberts is a conservative, who was Assistant Secretary for the Treasury under Ronald Reagan.  So don’t say I never acknowledge pundits from the Right…)

http://www.counterpunch.org/roberts09302009.html

http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2009/09/30/iran/index.html