2,000 Dead Soldiers

[WilliamPitt]

http://blog.pdamerica.org/?p=193

Seven more Marines have been killed in Iraq.

The total number of American soldiers dead stands now at 1,806.

The UK has lost 93 soldiers.

101 soldiers from the ‘Coalition’ have also been killed.

The total stands today at 2000.

The occupation has lasted 867 days.

[ixion]

1. yep, and multiply that by 70 (depneding on estimates)

and you've got the number of innocent Iraqi civillians killed by the so-called forces of liberation and democracy... and all in our name, no less. :-(

[dhinojosa]

2. "Support the troops?" (as I ram fist through wall)

:mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad:

[Wetzelbill]

3. that's shitty

makes me mad that all of those lives...

Nevermind. blah.. PO'd

[rodeodance]

4. all for the sake of Big egos in Washington and elsewhere!!

[Wetzelbill]

5. no doubt, it's a definite tragedy that's for sure nt

[King Coal]

6. Will, if I had your skills, I would try to find:

How many troops have been killed in combat, how many died subsequently from their wounds, and how many have been maimed.

[alcibiades_mystery]

8. The first two don't require skill

Just an internet connection. Check out all the features available here:

www.icasualties.org

[catmandu57]

7. Damn it

Damn it all to hell, rhe numbers have been going through the fucking roof, two weeks ago it was bad at 1751, now 1806. Other than a few people here and a handful of other sites nobody gives a fat rat's ass, man I want to throw my hands up and say fuck it.
Sometimes it just feels fucking hopeless, these sick bastards are going to win, they're never going to face the justice they so richly deserve, and now their fucking agenda is going to accelarate as they move the pieces into position.

[WilliamPitt]

9. .

[in_cog_ni_to]

10. Damn.

:cry:

[johnnie]

11. Not to mention

The thousands that are maimed for life and the ones who have died outside of Iraq.
And yes lurkers, I know we are at "war", but it still doesn't take away the fact that people are dying and their families and friends have to suffer through this.

[KharmaTrain]

12. Too Much Of The Negative Vibes...

C'mon...let's put the blinders on. We're winning this "war"...or didn't we? Now it's just a "struggle". :puke:

This country is still a long way from really having to face the destruction this war is doing not just to Iraq and our international reputation, but how it has and will divide this country more and more as the body count and this quagmire continues.

Be assured unless this regime is tossed out (unlikely without a Democratic House & Senate) or there's some major Iraqi offensive on the level of a Tet or worse, that 2,000 number will look small. At the current rate, if this ugly occupation continues through the end of meester booosh's "term", we're looking at double that number or more.

But, as my hero, Oddball, in Kelly's Heroes would say "Enough with the negative vibes"...our corporate media thinks things are just fine and dandy there. In fact, we don't look at all those "great things" we're doing. Like restoring the electrical grid that we destroyed...ooops. Oh? You mean it hasn't been restored? It's in worse shape than it was before 2003? Billions in rebuilding the system has just vanished? There you go with those negative vibes again!

[knitter4democracy]

13. All those lives .. .

All the wounded, some so badly wounded that they would've died just a few years ago in Gulf War I.

All the innocent civilians, babies, mothers, fathers, grandparents . . . some wounded beyond recognition, some buried with only what they could find.

All the insurgents fighting for freedom and autonomy killed as "terrorists."

How sick is this? ;(

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

14. Well, someday they'll build a nice monument with their names on it.

So, that the politicians can weep crocodile tears over them and use them to justify the next slaughter.

[bigtree]

15. less than half of Iraq has electricity, water, open schools,

and over 10,000 Iraqis killed along with our soldiers, by our soldiers, because of our soldiers . . . God bless them though, they have been dangerously misled.

[sakabatou]

16. Hey, Hey, Georgie, Hey, How many kids did you kill today

Too many.

[cmd]

17. On 7/31/04 Bush visited our town

I greeted him that day with a sign that said 912 Pair of Empty Boots. We have almost doubled that number in the last year. The invasion took more lives in the last twelve months than the previous twelve. I'm filled with sadness.

[StaggerLee]

18. some of the dead were parents

I can't even imagine what those children are going through.

or the parents of dead Iraqi children for that matter.

[bejammin075]

19. And about 400 contractors/mercenaries

This number isn't widely reported, but the number was solidly at 350+ some time ago. It's probably the minimal number, because some companies try to hide the deaths of their employees.

[Cobalt Violet]

20. Why do you hate Murika?

:sarcasm:

[LWolf]

21. How long, at this rate,

until American casualties exceed those on 9/11? Will the nation rise with the same intensity to hold this administration accountable?

Of course, if we count all lives, not just American lives, it already has.

[WilliamPitt]

22. Do the math

1806 dead divided by the number of days the occupation has lasted comes to just an eyelash over two dead soldiers a day.

[Just Me]

23. Tens of thousands must live with permanent physical or psychological,...

,...trauma. Oh, what a day!!!

[goodboy]

24. Why are you "dancing on the soldier's graves" Pitt?

Don't you know that you're not supposed to talk about the dead soldiers, or honor their life, or sacrifice or try to stop their wholesale slaughter by a bunch of lying oil thieving bastards??????


/CU logic

[SmileyBoy]

25. The only way that this war can stop:

Is if congress refuses to pump any more money into the war.

Once they stop paying for this godforsaken war, then it will have to end.

I weep for this country.

[SmileyBoy]

26. 2.083 dead US soldiers per day on average.

:cry:

[UrbScotty]

27. Another milestone for our 'pro-life' president.

:mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad:

[Burried News]

28. The weather in Baghdad today Hi 113F Low 86F.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/5day_f.shtml?world=2047

[Just Me]

29. The Republican Party owns this mess.

x(

[Goldmund]

30. Actually, in reality, WE own this mess.

Inter-party relationships are in the realm of internal policy. As far as foreign policy is concerned, nation-states are actors, not political parties. I doubt the average Iraqi has ever heard of the Republican party.

I wish the GOP owned it, but they don't... We all do.

[UrbScotty]

31. But *we* don't own the voting machines (nt)