Mainstream Media Virtually Ignoring the Civil War in Iraq

7 U.S. Soldiers Killed in Iraq

BAGHDAD, IRAQ-February 23, 2006 - A second bombing in Iraq has raised the total of Americans killed yesterday to seven.
A military statement says three members of the Third Heavy Brigade Combat Team of the Fourth Infantry Division died when their vehicle hit a roadside bomb. That blast was near Balad, about 50 miles north of Baghdad.

The military says another four soldiers from the 101st Airborne Division's First Brigade Combat Team died on patral about 150 miles north of Baghdad. Their vehicle also hit a roadside bombe.

Start reading and stop channel surfing. The New York Times has had in-depth page one stories on the sectarian violence, as opposed to the usual seventeen carbombs a day, for the past week.

Slate's Today's Papers, which is a roundup of the lead stories of the major newspapers of the USA and usually contains some good insight on the temperature of a current news story, reports that every one of the majors lead with
the out of control riots AND reported on the deaths of the seven American GIs killed in the two roadside bomb incidents.

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