And, I might add, this figure is only for the coalition forces and does
not include Iraqi civilians, of whom the US refuses to make accurate
totals of either deaths or injuries; the former is now estimated to be
~113,500 deaths.
Not to unnecessarily inject politics into the list messages, but, as
Opus of Bloom County might say, "Fred shot first."
Now, it's either a major tragedy, all `round, or the brown people don't
really count. And I really don't know of anyone on this list who would
make a plaintive statement that the latter is true.
War's a nasty, horrific business for everyone caught up in it. Trying
to dismiss it or minimize it with irrelevant statistics serves no
purpose. _No goddamned purpose whatsoever_. We are better than that, I
would hope.
Cheers.
John Innis wrote:
Bullshit! DC had 262 murders in 2002 (the most resent year I could
find stats for). So far over 1900 cooalition serveice men and women
killed in Iraq.
On 8/2/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
In a message dated 8/2/2005 2:31:36 P.M. Mountain Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I've seen the argument that more murders were committed in DC during the
time we have been in Iraq, than we have lost in soldiers...so we should pull out
of DC before we pull out of Iraq!
Robert B. Houston
--
Michael D. Porter
Roswell, NM
Never let anyone drive you crazy when you know it's within walking distance....
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