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Posted By: E, Daniel

I'm always astounded that you never hear people in the news or in society really stop to think about the human, not monetary, cost of wars - in particular the one we wage currently in Iraq. And it sure a sh@# still is war, ask any soldier over there.

One humble number to think about, perhaps Mrs Bush and Teddy Z could ponder it as they somehow try to make this hell that has been created some sort of phantom propoganda by news agencies...

Just excluding all others to die during the initial invasion, and combat deaths of American troops and iraqi/foreign resistance since:

The smallest number verified for civilian deaths (by body count in morgues) since the invasion is over 50,000 people.

Not the missing or unaccounted for.

Just so as to give it greater proportionality for us living in the USA, Iraq has a population of roughly 27 million people. If the same proportion of Americans were killed comparable to population, it would equal over 550,000 dead.

Over 1 million Iraqi people have fled their country.

Proportionally in the USA, that would be the same as over 11 million people scrambling over the borders to Canada or South America in fear of losing their lives.

This thing is an absolute disgrace, and the justifications for it are absurd.
And that has zero, ZERO to do with the NY Times, or lefty liberals, or any other scapegoat this government and its supporters seek to dump their morally bankrupt war on.


Daniel