European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 8, 2007, Darmstadt, Hesse                                May 2007 stars and stripes Mideast edition Page 13 on the reporting of military War deaths ombudsman David Mazzarella every so often a Reader will com Plain to stars and stripes about an item that appears every Day in the Mideast and Europe editions its a daily dispatch from the associated press reporting How Many deaths of service members have occurred in Iraq when the names of those the item also lists deaths of servicemen Bers from other coun tries that Are part of the Irreg the a runs analogous information from the War in of this has been going on for practically the whole length of those those who complain see the feature As yet another indication of the press Nega Tive attitudes toward the War in re porting each Day on the total number of War casualties More than at this writing is a morale its is the Media providing support to the enemy by Over reporting our concern for american casualties one blog contributor it seems to me that chunks of the once Aday a report Are repetitive and have outlived the total number of War dead very often appears in other parts of the especially the daily Roundup of combat the wire service report also lists incidents in which service members died three soldiers were killed saturday by a Roadside bomb Southeast of Baghdad without giving the victims because next skin have not been that is invariably included in other even when there Are no deaths to the a item gets in the the number of casualties other coun tries have suffered barely the Worth of the i is when the full name and Complete unit affiliation of the dead ser Vic members Are along with the location of the fatal in this comes straight from the depart ment of defense after All notifications have been i would like to see those listings con with perhaps weekly updates on the total number of casualties among and Allied the Colleen writ ing to the editor from Camp says it More eloquently than i could when i am not deployed i dont just go deaths in Iraq the assorted Attu i one death identifications t Reader iraqi sniper Story was enemy propaganda 0 n april stripes ran an article from Iraq by one of its Fine War Monte through life forgetting that my fellow sol legend of sup Diers Are still laying Down their lives every a crack insurgent i make a Point to read every soldiers Bryon Linnehan wrote from name that stars and stripes posts in the death toll column i do it because it could have been and it could have been my Battle you dont have to know a fellow to mourn the loss of their Bryon Linnehan wrote from Baghdad any paper with such a wide circulation and Reader base As the military should be More responsible and publish unbiased facts and stories that do not seem engineered to degrade the title champions a fictional enemy combat ant As a the word is the first Defini Tion Given in my websters new world col lege dictionary says a legend is a tale handed Down through that is in verify a subsequent definition says its what an exceptionally noteworthy individual is its the former meaning that was to me clearly intended the existence of a sniper allegedly responsible for deaths of numerous troops is just not while giving voice to those who believe the the article also Calls the stories Apoc a fad that ran its an in ternet the product of hype and and a Juba Morins article contained a serious message after a relatively peace Ful Start to the Baghdad Security plan snipers have reemerged As a deadly pres it noted that sniper fire had killed two soldiers in a shiite neighbourhood in As Many i thought the Captain writing from Bagh dad did have an understandable complaint about the photo that accompanied the Arti Cle in some it showed a i Flat on his attended by two he had been sprayed with Glass from a bul let shattered window but was the caption that was in relatively Small the first glance impression was that the Soldier had been wounded or killed by the mysterious got a question or suggestion for the ombudsman on what or should in stars and stripes Send an email to or phone 2027610945 in the to our readers Dave Mazzarella readers Corner blog can be found at missile plan needs but Putin attack unfair Washington Post editorial the still growing diplomatic storm Over the Bush administrations at tempt to install missile defense bases in Europe is mostly rus Sias Vladimir Putin has skilfully and cynically used the administrations plans to deploy 10 interceptors in Poland and a radar in the czech Republic As a Way to stir up trouble in nato and to justify new Steps in russian increasingly Belliger ent foreign policy such As moving to Ward the renunciation of a treaty limiting conventional military forces in the administration is right to Call Putin broadsides yet that Doest mean its antimissile strategy is the Pentagon has been chastised repeat edly by government watchdogs and its own expert auditors for Rushing the deployment of missile defense systems be fore they have been adequately tested or a genuine threat has yet de spite promising to learn from its the administration is repeating them in eur it opened bilateral negotiations with the polish and czech governments on mis Sile bases without adequately consulting other european allies or coordinating the proposed system with natos own missile defense it asked Congress to appropriate More than million for the project next even though the threat it is aimed iranian missile capable of reaching Europe int expected to materialize until most the administration elected to press ahead even though the mid course designed to shoot Down missiles while they Are still beyond earths has not proved itself in test Only one successful test of the interceptor has been conducted since and that was under controlled conditions that  be present in a real two More Are planned for the coming months even if they the system will be far from reaching the standards usually required of weapons systems before they Are politics is the most plausible explanation for this costly the administration was determined to lower the first interceptor missiles into silos in Alaska before the 2004 election now it appears determined to pour con Crete in Europe before this Congress is More Likely to step on the democratic Ellen Taus Cher of chairwoman of the House subcommittee handling missile de says she has support from both Par ties to eliminate funding for construction in Tauscher rightly says she is open to building a missile defense base in Europe eventually the partisan debate Over whether the United states needs a defense against missile attacks is Long rus Sias attempts to obstruct the process should be exposed for what they re turn to cold War but there is no reason to embrace the administrations Rush to More time and Effort need to be devoted to winning european support for the sys tem and integrating it with natos europeans should be asked to share the expenses of a project that could eventually Cost and no More interceptors should be deployed until the pentagons in dependent testers can confirm that they Are Likely to Congress can play a valuable role by ensuring that this highly ing defense project is at to realities on the prickly City by Scott Stantis aus Ian off