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It boggles the mind that US casualties in Iraq are now mentioned only in passing, if indeed at all, in the mainstream media.

Conservatives have succeeded in framing bad news from Iraq as "anti-Bush," thereby intimidating the major news organizations -- who wish to maintain an aura of objectivity -- into glossing over US casualties.

21 soldiers have already been killed this month in Iraq. That's more than were lost in the entire month of February.

What, exactly, is "unnewsworthy" about that?