bush might pass the 3,000 slaughtered "number" before the New Year

[BOSSHOG]

bush is having a great month getting our kids killed. 96 American Soldiers killed in December and the total is up to 2983. Heckuva job bushie. Just recently the number of Americans you got killed in Iraq surpassed the number of people you allowed to get killed on 9-11. You are on a hot streak. Its ashame that your liar tony snow will slough it off as just a number as he did recently when the "number" was 2,500. I guess "it" will just be a "number" when "it" hits 5,000 huh george. I'm just so fucking overwhelmed with conservative compassion.

http://icasualties.org/oif/default.aspx

Your ever shrinking "conservative" base just can't get enough of those casualty figures. You know how much they support the troops.

[SpiralHawk]

1. "But on the bright side, oil & munitions profits are way up." - Commander AWOL

"I've got no complaints." - Dick 'Five Deferments' Cheney

http://images.google.com/url?q=&usg=__E4wOpr-wTokSiH7kXy2Ffa4h_5M=

[Bushwick Bill]

2. "The 3,000 Milestone," by Stan Goff.

The 3,000 Milestone

by Stan Goff

As the grim milestone of the 3,000th American troop death approaches in Iraq, what can we say about the war that hasn’t been said before?

On September 7, 2005, I wrote a lengthy analysis-from-afar on political and military developments in Iraq, called The Danger of Iraqi Partition. On that same day, we were approaching the 2,000 US-dead-in-Iraq milestone, 1,892 to be exact. Just as today, in the United States these figures of US troop deaths garner the attention of the media, that still pretends the hundreds of thousands of Iraqis dead, wounded, and displaced are a mere footnote.

It reminds one of the old Tarzan novels of Edgar Rice Burroughs, where the entire world exists as a background within which a white European male protagonist can have an adventure about which white males can fantasize. The media in the US is still completely the captive of the White Man’s Burden narrative, even though the term, “White Man,” has now been supplanted by “American.” This is evident in the reflexive valorization of American life over the lives of dark foreigners — which, admittedly, is necessary to sustain circulation and political clout in a culture of national chauvinism. It is also evident in the seeming inability to visualize any “solution” to the whirlwind reaped by US policy in Iraq that does not require the continued employment of US troops to occupy Iraq.

While this milestone will be used — as it should be in my opinion — to mobilize emotional support for the redeployment of US troops back to the United States and the end of the US military occupation of Iraq, I am going to take this opportunity — which it is — to introduce a more clinical account of what is happening with this war. It is fairly obvious now that most Americans want to be rid of this war. In a sense, then, the campaign to build opposition has achieved momentum in a direction that seems unlikely to be reversed. The question that arises now, and the one for which there is little satisfaction in mainstream commercialized or Democratic Party discourse, is what do “we” do? How do “we” get out?
http://stangoff.com/?p=437

[hcil]

3. but

bush is still commander in chief. How can it not be compassionate? No one argues with him.

[Blue_In_AK]

4. Seven of this month's deaths have come from Ft. Richardson

here in Anchorage alone. It's so terribly sad.

[northofdenali]

10. We have a very high KIA/casualty rate in our state, Blue -

and it looks like more and more of the folks stationed here, as well as our Guard and Reserves, are going to have to go back.

I HATE THIS WAR AND I DESPISE THIS MISADMINISTRATION. Sorry for shouting, but nothing else suits my mood when I read about our young people dying for lies.

Ft. Rich & Ft. WW have both lost so many. :cry:

[napi21]

5. I realized that yesterday when the number was announced at 2977.

The way things have been going,and with 5 days to go, the terrible reality of 3,000 sounds like a certainty to me! How very sad.

[fuzzyball]

6. Like that sen from Oregon, I am at the end of my rope on Iraq

The dumbo commander in chief has not changed the tactics
in over 3 years. The same soldiers getting killed by the
same frigging IED's on the same friggin patrols on the
same frigging streets in Baghdad and elsewhere.

It is certainly criminal! But at the same time I feel helpless
to change the situation. Dumbo will still be CinC for 2 friggin
years.

[PsN2Wind]

7. When I refer to the KIA's of Iraq

I always use, and stress, the VietNam era vernacular. That being they were "Wasted" rather than killed.

[beth9999]

8. Bush passed 3,000 looooooong ago...

... he's responsible for the nearly 3000 dead US soldiers in Iraq.
... he's responsible for the dead soldiers in Afghanistan.
... he's responsible for the 100,000+ civilians who died in Iraq and Afghanistan
... he's responsible for the nearly 3,000 people who died on September 11, 2001.
... he's responsible for the 10,000+ people who died as a result of his mishandling of Hurricane Katrina.
... he's partly responsible for the thousands of people who have died as a result of AIDS over the last six years because of his refusal to fund decent research.
... he's partly responsible for the deaths of tens of thousands of people who have died as a result of people who could have benefited from stem cell research, which he has blocked at every turn.
... he's partly responsible for the deaths of over 230,000 people in the tsunami over two years ago when he knew (thanks to seismogriphers) after the earthquake that a tsunami was headed to Indonesia and didn't even so much as pick up the phone to warn them so they could evacuate the shores. They were taken completely by surprise thanks to Bush's negligence.

In short, he passed 3000 deaths looooong ago.

[TheCowsCameHome]

9. I'm sure he'll make note of it in the SOTU address.

Tell us again how it hurts you every night, you miserable, murdering little prick.