War: What Casualties?

In the first three days of September, seven Americans have been killed in Iraq, but you would never know it from reading the Journal (J). US casualties have either gone unmentioned or were just one sentence buried in other stories. The history of the war, as told by the J, is almost completely missing. Afraid of the death, blood and pain of the war, the J refuses to show images that would document American and Iraqi deaths as well as the huge numbers of badly wounded and displaced. Why? The J follows the blind dictates of its antiquated, conservative publisher, a staunch Republican. Pictures might reveal the truth of this senseless, stupid, futile destruction of so many young people.