Soldiers Die and Media Crickets Chirp.

I guess troop deaths are only big news now if scores die at one time.

Twelve U.S. servicemembers killed in Iraq since Friday
Tuesday 24th January, 2006

U.S. military officials confirmed six soldiers, 4 Marines, and two airmen died in a spate of incidents. Ten of the 12 deaths were caused by improvised explosive devices.

Insurgents kill seven troops in Iraq
UPI

--snip-- n other developments, combined forces detained two suspected terrorists in connection with recent improvised-explosive-device (IED) attacks in Diyarah during a raid Tuesday morning. Iraqi soldiers from the 8th Iraqi Army Division, and U.S. soldiers from the 8th Infantry Regiment and the 4th Infantry Division, raided two houses suspected of harboring terrorists, the American Forces Press Service reported. --snip--

Soldiers from the 7th Iraqi Army Division, and Coalition forces found six caches and capture three insurgents during patrols of various cities Monday.

How sad that our media can't be bothered with reporting even just the number of our weekly war dead. (Oh, I forgot the Republican talking point: That information might give aid and comfort to the enemy.) And how sad that the president's poll numbers are obviously more important than the lives of our soldiers.

File this under: Who will sit beside you at church this Sunday? A grieving family?