THE "NUMBER" TODAY IS 2615 - AND RISING FAST

[leftyladyfrommo]

Every day it just goes up a few more - sometimes 1, sometimes 3.

I know they are "just a number" but those numbers mean a lot to a lot of us. We don't want to ever forget them even tho the news doesn't seem to be interested in them anymore.

19,890 wounded.

Killed in Afghanistan -327

[TheCowsCameHome]

1. .........not a word about it in my local newspapers.....

Ho Hum.

What did John Karr have for lunch today?

[unhappycamper]

2. The Boston Globe and the Boston chapter of the VFP are at

odds on this silence.

http://cancelmyglobe.com/

[livvy]

3. They will never be just a number to me, as I know they never will for you.

They are my brothers and sisters, nieces and nephews, cousins, parents of my students, my neighbor's children, and friends I've not had the pleasure to meet.

:cry:

[bdamomma]

4. and when will Americans be in the streets

to protest those needless deaths how many more must die?

[leftyladyfrommo]

5. Looks like never.

During the Viet Nam War it was the students who led the way in the protests. But there was a draft then. Now the students just aren't that emotionally involved.

[bdamomma]

6. and what would happen if those students were involved like they had

no choice but to get out there and save their own butts.

[karlrschneider]

7. 2,617 according to

http://www.icasualties.org/oif/

:cry:

[Blue_In_AK]

8. We just had news today of an airman

out of Eielson AFB in Fairbanks being killed by an IED. This has just got to stop.

[Hemperor]

9. why the afghanistan kill count, is that not an

acceptable war?

[leftyladyfrommo]

10. No war is acceptable to me.

Although I wish the Taliban would drop off the face of this earth.

What a sticky wicket Afghanistan is. The Taliban were horrible but they kept the drug trade under control.

Now it looks like the Taliban are making a big comeback - and the drug trade is the main economic engine in the country.

I certainly have no answers.

[Khayembii Communique]

11. This is insulting

2615 troops killed? That's nothing in comparison to the 45227 Iraqi civilians killed. Which number do you think is more important: the death count of an imperialist force in an illegal invasion of a sovereign nation, or the death count of all of the civilians that force has killed?

[leftyladyfrommo]

13. I know - its like being caught in the Theater of the Absurd

And out number has jumped to 2619 today. We are losing a few good people a day. The Iraqis are losing about 100 a day.

[Road Scholar]

12. There should be some significance when the number equals those lost in

9/11. Probably not but Such a waste.

[leftyladyfrommo]

14. I just keep wondering how high this number is going to go.

Is there a ceiling? How many lives is this adm. willing to lose?

This whole debacle is just ghastly.

[Road Scholar]

15. And for each one lost, there' s a couple of dozen people of

men, women and children whose lives are crushed and will never be the same.Not to even mention those thousands who are crippled for life.It's sickening to think about. If there was any justification for the war it would be hard enough to accept, but this is just a waste.