Uh, Just Asking

Does it matter to the pols running for prez? Does it matter to the people voting for the pols. Let's see whether the latest estimate of the civilian death toll in Iraq makes the agenda. Doubtful. Why should it? It's old news. It's all about the first three years of the war. We're well past that. We're going on ... what? ... five years? Besides, the number of the dead -- 151,000 between 2003 and 2006, according to the World Health Organization -- doesn't even come close to the 655,000 estimated earlier by researchers from Johns Hopkins. Yes, the numbers are all over the lot, depending on the source and methodology. Here's a count of documented deaths based on actual reports, not on estimates. As of today, it's only 80,419 to 87,834. Ahhh ... whatever.

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[MAX1]

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WAIT TILL THE MSM STARTS TELLING US ABOUT THE DEATH TOLL, BEFORE THE WAR.

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[realitytrumpsbull]

Fog of war, fog of spin, fog of lies, fog of gin
welcome to the liar's club, admission price
a barrel of oil, a life of toil,
my life for a gallon of gas

Switching to Hippie-power...

[johnnyjust]

600,000, 6 million, 60 million, 600 million.

Yeah, I got lost of numbers, too.

You do realize that the vast majority of deaths were from terrorists. Right?

[Mutex]

What do the 'Awakening Councils' and the Shiite government have in common?

What does 'al Qaeda in Iraq' and the Mahdi Army have in common?

[retarius]

Jan....good question falling on deaf ears as long as Americans think and act as though their lives are the only ones worth anything...it's tied up with the fantasy that somehow god has blessed America and Americans are somehow special...some sort of reflected glory from the military might, I suppose

[jmpurser]

Nope.

But did you hear? Brittany's car got impounded. Now THERE'S an important story.

[Pdubya]

JAN - thanks. there is no dollar value for a life. that we pay our taxes to fund it is even twisted more.

peace

democrat for ron paul

END THE WARS!

[rabun666]

and inflation was 3% last year, according to government sources.

[Mutex]

Haven't you heard...we won the Iraq war.

Its been over since last summer when the former Bathists and other Sunni elite (also known as the Awakening Counsels or, lol, 'Concerned Local Citizens) decided to take the bribes from the United States to turn on the upstart poor, lower class Sunnis (also known as 'al Qaeda in Iraq') because they had the audacity to 'overplay their hand' and not only force the United States out of their country but to overturn the former social order under Saddam Hussein.

These very Bathists were our supposed reason for invading Iraq and now they are our buddies...at least temporarily.

Thanks to the media we don't have to worry about things like war or death or torture during an election. We have more important things to concern ourselves with like whether Hillary was 'actually' crying or whether someone wants her to iron his shirt!

But I feel your pain Mr. Herman.

[TexasDem0]

Jan, I think the answer is, "No, they don"t care." That is a tragedy of historic proportions. Cold-hearted indifference has caused us to fall from the ethical high ground. How can we claim to be the world"s greatest nation when the Iraqi death toll is mostly ignored?

[hopeless277]

I'm surprised you have forgotten the Democratic Party motto: Dead People Don't Vote. Our brave and fearless Democratic candidates haven't.