Should we not publish coalition losses?

[Nizark]

In WWII the US didn't come on TV everyday saying that we lost 1 guy here and 2 guys there, we just did the job that had to be done. As far as I know, neither did the allied forces publish daily death toll numbers.

Without doubt we need to show the fallen our absolute repect, but it is also has a impact on the American psyche (sp?) probably wanting more and more people to cut our losses and run.

So what ya say, should the media continue to report on the new every death that occurs? Hell, they seem to only report it when the soldier dies in combat, not by accidents anyway.

[Macs.]

That would be the first step into a dictation.

[Mr. Nielsen]

Not announcing casualties would feed all kinds of rumours and conspiracy theories.

[Seiyuuki]

Also, considering the amount of casulties back in WWII compare to today...

Like Stalin said:

"One death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic."

[George W. Bush]

No but we need to keep telling the voters that this is a war.

One of the worst type of wars because the enemy are the civilians brainwashed by Saddam.

[flickme]

It would be impossible to know how many guys died day by day in WW2 over such a large battlefield.

[MARINO]

Here in Spain this year we have had a lot of loses(obviously less than US) a few people demand the return of our troops, but spanish people know that this deads had been for a reason. We shouldn't hide the truth to our countries. And our people. Even if they are bad news

[California Joe]

That would be the first step into a dictation.

Or a Dictatorship. ;)

They didn't publish daily losses in WWII because they didn't have the technology.Nothing wrong with everyone knowing how many of their sons and daughters are dying daily in a foreign land. If the American people can't handle it then they can suck it up, whine, or vote the President out of office. Real simple.

[Argyll]

Welcome to the 21st Century!!

[radon]

Absolutely not. Publish it all.

[NcDeuce]

The unofficial fourth branch...

The Media...

Damn technology! Damn Al Gore's world wide web...aw wait, we wouldn't be here. :(

[ShotOver]

Err, yeah they did post death in the paper.

Every day in the paper, they had colums of the regiments, and who was killed, and all that.

[Trident-za]

Of course the casaulty figures should be published! And the figures from WW2 were published in the newspapers as quick as they could get them.

A few years ago in South Africa, the ANC made it law that newspapers were not allowed to publish crime statistics because it was giving the general populace the "wrong impression". I'm sorry - but that kind of approach/mentality is ****e - its just ignoring reality, not changing it.

[mustamato]

Not mentioned often, but over 300 Iraqi police officers have lost
their lives since April 2003. One a day.

[George W. Bush]

I'm sure a lot more Iraqi police died than that.

[MARINO]

But, Media only shows bad news, specially here in spain, they only show, bomb attcks, deaths, etc.. They don'y show whoe we are helping Iraq, to become a new country, all the projects we have etc...

[Trident-za]

That unfortantely is a factor of economics and people. People aren't interested in happy stuff - they want blood and violence. News stations know this - they show what people wanna see.

If you were offered the choice of watching 2 movies : Black Hawk Down or The Bridges of Madison County, which would you watch?

[Aegirsson]

People aren't interested in happy stuff - they want blood and violence.

Speak for yourself.

[Trident-za]

Err, no - I'm generalising. There is a reason the media only focus on the bad stuff.... and its NOT to make the coalition, or Bush, look bad.

[Operation Ivy]

its NOT to make the coalition, or Bush, look bad

Thats not true about CNN ;)

[MARINO]

The worst are when they show colalition guys hurted or dead, for my the worst of the worst is when they had show dead spanish soldiers being ****fanated, but colation forces have many programs to make a new country:
training of iraqi police , army(my father is preparing the military academy to train iraqi army officers) for food indsutry, etc..:(

[Nizark]

Good point fellas

[khukuri]

ABout ww2. I think its a bad thing to relate to cuz I hope that alot of stuff changed from 1945 to 2004 when it comes to the relations btw goverment and the people. I know that it has done so in many other countries.