rick7475
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I am not trying to offend here, but the Ottawa Citizen ran a front page article over the list of Canadians who have died. They listed 11 (not including the Canadian from Gatineau Quebec who died in a helicopter crash with the US Army). Of these 11, 4 were friendly fire, 2 were from the LAV 3 roll-over, and the rest were KIA.
Certainly it is dangerous to be overthere and the risk is great, but I find it a little innacurate for the news media to portray all the deaths as battle-related, or at least this is what I gather from the slant of the articles.
Friendly fire is very sad and a part of war, but it can also happen in peacetime during training. The LAV 3 roll-over could have happened on the roads in Canada.
Again, not to lessen the sacrifice of those soldiers who died from accidents in Afghanistan, but to add them to a list of casualties inferring they died from enemy fire is innacurate, and what my concern is that groups opposed to Canadian Military operations will use those numbers to inflate their position that Canadian soldiers are dying in combat overseas. I think it would be more responsible to report that 11 Canadian soldiers died in Afghanistan, and 5 KIA and 6 through accidents and friendly fire, plus others who are Canadian citizens serving in the US military.
I hope I am not out of line, but does anyone else feel that the reporting of casualties should be more sensitive and accurate as to not fuel the anti-war sentiment?
Certainly it is dangerous to be overthere and the risk is great, but I find it a little innacurate for the news media to portray all the deaths as battle-related, or at least this is what I gather from the slant of the articles.
Friendly fire is very sad and a part of war, but it can also happen in peacetime during training. The LAV 3 roll-over could have happened on the roads in Canada.
Again, not to lessen the sacrifice of those soldiers who died from accidents in Afghanistan, but to add them to a list of casualties inferring they died from enemy fire is innacurate, and what my concern is that groups opposed to Canadian Military operations will use those numbers to inflate their position that Canadian soldiers are dying in combat overseas. I think it would be more responsible to report that 11 Canadian soldiers died in Afghanistan, and 5 KIA and 6 through accidents and friendly fire, plus others who are Canadian citizens serving in the US military.
I hope I am not out of line, but does anyone else feel that the reporting of casualties should be more sensitive and accurate as to not fuel the anti-war sentiment?