Shit.
But then it’s just a number.
U.S. Toll Tops 3,500 in Iraq | World Latest | Guardian Unlimited
Another U.S. soldier was killed by a roadside bomb in Iraq, the military said Thursday, pushing the four-year death toll for American forces to 3,501, according to an Associated Press tally.
The count includes 23 deaths in the first six days of June, an average of about four per day.
The soldier was killed Wednesday when a roadside bomb exploded during combat operations in a southwestern section of Baghdad, a military statement said. It added that two other soldiers were wounded in the attack and evacuated to a coalition medical facility.
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[…] 3,500 and counting. […]
Its completely devastating when its broken down like that … its senseless … a tragic loss.
There are, too, hundreds more killed who are private contractors. And over twenty thousand wounded. But what about the hundreds of thousands of Iraqi civilians? A year ago a statistical estimate done by a group of Johns Hopkins researchers established that the total number of Iraqi dead due to this illegal invasion was between 300,000 and 900,000, with 600,000 being the expected number.
The number of deaths just from IED bomb attacks (possibly using those 300 tons of missing high explosives stolen from an unguarded dump south of Baghdad in the early hours of the invasion) might kill 300 in a typical week. That alone amounts to 15,000 Iraqi civilians casualties per year. But there are thousands or tens of thousands of other violent acts each year and deaths due to them. Why is it that Iraqi deaths don’t count, I wonder?
When one drops a precious glass vase on the concrete floor, does one blame the vase for the brittleness of the glass when the vase lies in shardsr? Does one blame the concrete floor for its hardness?
If we are doing math on death then how about $ spent per death?
If we wanted to show, “They killed about 3k of our people, let’s kill 6K of their people!” Then I think we have done that. do we need 30K? 300K I think we have the 100 to one advantage right? do we need to kill 3 Million to feel good and safe?
I actually heard a Priest on the radio say that the republicans were STILL better than the democrats because they democrats supported abortion so were responsible for 40 million innocent dead babies so Republicans were still better.