June 14, 2008 04:00 PM
<I>This Week</I>: In Memoriam
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This Week with George Stephanopoulos marks the passings of newsman Tim Russert, author Eliot Asinof, philanthropist Stewart Mott, diplomat Harlan Cleveland and former RNC Co-Chair Elly Peterson as well as 5 soldiers killed this week in Iraq. According to icasualties, the total casualties in Iraq is now 4,412 and per Iraq Body Count, there were 128 Iraqi civilians killed this week.
Watch this tribute to the fallen
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMACzBomDK4
OMG, Tim Russert died? Why didn't anyone tell me about this?
This week also marked the moment that more American soldiers were killled in Afghanistan than Iraq in a month. So far I'm still puzzled why those killed in Afghanistan don't get the same honour GI's killed in Iraq get...
They have mothers too, you know....
No matter what else, you gotta give george credit for doing this each week, no one else does. It's a sad weekly reminder of what is going on.
I'm proud to say our paper, The Palm Beach Post also has a posting each day of the number of dead and wounded in both wars.
I don't mean to be disrespectful, but way too much is being made of Mr. Russert's tragic death. That's all that is on TV. Way too much. And all the journalists are engaging in this mastubatory eulogizing... ENOUGH! Tim himself would have been displeased with all of this.
A post from acceleratingfuture.com
Steve Says:
May 11th, 2008 at 5:16 pm
My four year old niece developed a concept of death, and asked her father if everyone dies.
He said yes, everyone does, eventually.
Shocked, she bit back tears and asked “Are the doctors working on it?”
He said that they were doing their best.
“When will they have a cure?”
“I don’t know.”
And in memoriam of Czech Republic:
Euro 2008= Turkey 3-2 Czech Republic
Czech Republic can go home now :-)
How about Capt. Ward Boston? He was the senior legal council for the Naval Board of Inquiry concerning the June 8, 1967 attack on the USS Liberty by Israeli Air and Naval forces that resulted in 34 Americans killed and 171 wounded. His job in 1967 was to be part of a hastily-called investigation into the attack, and–as he has recently revealed to the shock of many–to rule that Israel’s 90-minute bloodfest waged against America’s young men was all an ‘accident’ that occurred during ‘the fog of war’, all the evidence to the contrary be damned. In 2002, Capt. Ward broke his silence of 3 decades and released an affidavit to the public in which he admitted that the entire investigation was a sham, and that he was under orders (from persons of no less authority than President Lyndon Johnson and Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara) to rule that the bloodiest day in American naval history since WWII took place as a result of ‘mistaken identity’ and that America’s ally, Israel–was innocent of any wrongdoing.
Since his passing seems unworthy of acknowledgement....who benefits?
I know this relates to the last post, but the comments section is a little "crowded" to say the least. I'd like to see David Shuster. I know he may not have the gravitas of a Russert, but he knows his stuff. The only problems with him are:
1. I have trouble believing they'd promote someone who was suspended from the air 4 months ago for controversial comments involving Chelsea Clinton.
2. His voice is a little squeaky.
The second point may be a little petty, but this is television, which is an industry that by it's very nature has to rely on superficial things such as that.
zo @ 8:
Yes. It is sad. That was a lovely tribute. Let me refill your glass and we will drink to his memory.
As I mentioned elsewhere, Brian Budd died this week:
http://www.nationalpost.com/most_popular/story.html?id=582934
In case the picture isn't familiar, he used to have a shock of red hair and constantly wore a moutache (he played in the late 1970s and early 1980s, y'know).
Its too bad somebody forgot to mention a figure i grew with.
RIP Jim McKay
LanceThruster @ 7:
Not forgotten , glad some else read this also .
And LBJ and crew , those guys who brought us The Gulf of Tonkin , how many untold dead there ? .
I really hate this "in memoriam" segment.
As with everyone episode before it, the soldiers are always a post script to other 'so called' more important people.
I really dispute that Tim Russert deserved more attention than the five that died today in Iraq whose pictures were never shown.
Just read of a 1 year old baby killed in CA , stomped , punched , kicked to death , the police shot and killed him . Insane .
Killed the person who did this ( I meant to say ) , I would of done the same .
WHAT?!! Tim Russert died?!!
If the media spent as much time investigating this administration as they have eulogizing Tim Russet perhaps we wouldn't have so many dead and maimed soldiers, sailors and marines. What we really should be "shocked" about is this dispicable sham of a government we have.
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