Iraqi Death Toll

For all those who will accept nothing short of "victory" in Iraq, please get on the same page as the rest of us: sending others into an immoral situation and expecting them to behave morally is absurd.

Ed. Note: The images below may disturb you. They should. They disturb me too. But that doesn't necessarily mean we shouldn't look at them. Sometimes ...

My opponent, U.S. Sen. Jim Inhofe, rubber-stamps President Bush about the success of the surge. He warned of mushroom clouds from WMDs, but now blames the media for "hyping" WMDs in Iraq.

Here is a new song for 4000 American soldiers and the 89,000 Iraqi civilians and all the others who have died as a result of George Bush's war.

The exact death toll will never be known. But as of today, a responsible, cautious, conservative thing to say is that between 300,000 and 1.2 million Iraqis have died.

Maybe some fifth grade will get together and string 1,700,000 paper clips together so we can see 1.7 million of something representing the civilians who have been killed in Iraq.

On January 1st at the Pasadena Rose Parade, Revolutionary garbed patriots from the White Rose Coalition will move amongst the crowds to spread the message that its time to reclaim our democracy.

It is extremely difficult to gauge how many civilians are killed in Iraq because census data is poor, many deaths go unreported and there is often double-counting.

The Los Angeles Times reported Friday on a poll from Opinion Research Business. The poll suggests that more than a million Iraqis have died from the conflict resulting from the U.S. invasion and occupation.