{"id":1485,"date":"2004-11-21T16:35:59","date_gmt":"2004-11-21T23:35:59","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2004-11-21T16:35:59","modified_gmt":"2004-11-21T23:35:59","slug":"media-downplays-rising-casualty-toll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2004\/11\/21\/media-downplays-rising-casualty-toll\/","title":{"rendered":"Media Downplays Rising Casualty Toll"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday <a href=\"http:\/\/antiwar.com\/casualties\/\">the death toll for GIs in Iraq<\/a> hit 100 for the month of November (1221 total since the war began).  With only two-thirds of the month over, Americans in Iraq are on track to exceed the previous high of 135 deaths in April of this year.<\/p>\n<p>This is an average of <i><B>5 Americans killed every day in Iraq.<\/b><\/i>  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2004\/WORLD\/meast\/09\/07\/iraq.main\/\">While the media has acknowledged some major milestones<\/a>, they have largely ignored the alarming level of US casualties in Iraq.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/antiwar.com\/casualties\/list.php\">The tragedy of the death of each individual American<\/a>, as well as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iraqbodycount.net\/names.htm\">the death of each individual Iraqi<\/a> are not reflected by mere numbers.  But the numbers must be reported loudly so that Americans realize the rising costs of this disaster.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday the death toll for GIs in Iraq hit 100 for the month of November (1221 total since the war began). With only two-thirds of the month over, Americans in Iraq are on track to exceed the previous high of 135 deaths in April of this year. This is an average of 5 Americans killed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[676],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-1485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-antiwar-movement"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1485\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1485"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}