That's not a typo --
Reutersm, via ABC ,has just pegged the death toll at 50,000... GALLE, Sri Lanka (Reuters) - The sea and wreckage of coastal towns all around the Indian Ocean yielded up tens of thousands of bodies on Tuesday, pushing the toll from Sunday's tsunami past 50,000.
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Sri Lanka and Indonesia each reported death tolls around 19,000 and expected them to keep rising.
India's toll of 11,500 included at least 7,000 on one archipelago, the Andamans and Nicobar. On one island, the surge of water triggered by Sunday's cataclysmic undersea earthquake killed two-thirds of the population.
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Around Sri Lanka's southern coasts about 1.5 million people — or one in 12 of the population — were homeless, many sheltering in Buddhist temples and schools.
I'm thinking of the good our nation could have done if we weren't hopelessly snared in the Iraq q
Wagmire -- all because the Chimperor and his handlers lied to us.
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