Well, The "Number" is up to 2638 today.

[leftyladyfrommo]

Yesterday was an awful day in Iraq - I think I saw where over 70 people died in bomb blasts.

Wounded - 19,890.

[rsmith6621]

1. Aint Victory Sweet.....

I am so glad that we are making progress.....:sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm:

[leftyladyfrommo]

2. I just wish we would bring them all home.

I can't see where they are doing any good. The bodies just keep piling up over there. I just can't see where there is going to be any good kind of resolution. We just have no business there. Never had any business there.

[bdamomma]

6. and they this sick regime wants more bodies to pile up

when is enough enough?, what 3,000? 4,000, for bush's job to be finished (bush never finished anything he is a complete failure) what BS how can any of us let this illegal killing go on?

[EnviroBat]

14. I wish a "reporter"...

would finally grow a set and ask the Chimp this exact question to his face. "Mr. President, how many more of our kids are you willing to sacrifice in the pursuit of your vague, ongoing mission in Iraq"? Lets see that bastard try to answer that one. Are there any reporters out there willing to ask this simple question? What are you spineless softballers so afraid of?

[Philosoraptor]

3. we must fight on so that the fallen won't feel so all alone and in vain

[leftyladyfrommo]

4. So what would happen if we did bring them all home?

I wish there was someway to know. But we can't just go on occupying the country forever.

[Poll_Blind]

5. Heh, strange coincidence...I was laying in bed with my...

...son last night (he's just turned four) and we were just shooting the shit about life, etc., getting ready for bed. Earlier in the day, I'd been showing him the differences between quarters, nickles, pennies and dimes. Then I went on to show him how to read dates off of the coins, playing a little game of finding the oldest coin in the lot.

  Anyway, out of the blue, breaking a sleepy silence, he said "2638". I thought it was odd, so I asked him about it. He gave me this squinty look and a smile- a queer face he puts on sometimes. And he said it again, "2638". I told him it wasn't 2638 yet, but that it was 2006, assuming he was talking about a year. We ruminated for a moment about what it would be like in 2638- flying cars, etc. I remember that he specifically said this number because 2038 is a date related to potential problems in computer software- a number I'm very familiar with, and that it was 2638 because I remember thinking "Gad, will there even be a world in six hundred years from now?"

  That's all. I just woke up. I reserve the right not to make any sense before I've had my first coffee of the day (it's half-done, so some of this should make sense), but I did think that was amusingly odd.

  I hope to hell by the time he's old enough he doesn't ever have to tally the dead in a war outside of a history class- or be part of one.

PB

[leftyladyfrommo]

8. Whoa! That is spooky. n/t

[AnotherMother4Peace]

7. Bless you leftylady for keeping this upfront-haven't seen it in the "news"

k&r

May these there families find peace, and never any mention of the wounded.

[leftyladyfrommo]

9. You need to watch Reuters or Alernet (Reuters)

They have all the coverage every day. It is just so depressing. So many people dying and for what? They report on US and colatition casualties but also on the poor Iraqis caught up in this mess.

[catmandu57]

10. That's six more than when i looked this morning

I get the feeling that something big is happening that we don't know about. We've been getting horrific casualty numbers in just the last week, how much longer? how many more dead?

[leftyladyfrommo]

11. I;m not sure when they update the numbers everyday.

And sometimes they change again in the afteroon.

I just looked again and it is still 2638 - but there is now a headline that the truce with the militants that has been in the news is now null and void. Something happened.

Scary.

[catmandu57]

12. The first stop I make every morning

is http://icasualties.org, generally around 7:30 a.m. central every morning, at that time their count was 2632. When I read your post I looked again just to see if I had read things right, and it was indeed 2638.
There has been a sharp spike in just the last couple of days, sadly though, this is about the only place I hear about Iraq. This should lead the nightly news every night and we should see the flag draped coffins come home with honor, instead of being snuck into the country in the dead of night.

[leftyladyfrommo]

13. Old News, I guess.

I wish the national news would cover more - like a special lead in every nite on how many have been killed and maimed. Lehrer seems to do a pretty good job.

But if the News does cover these stories then they get criticized for not putting out the good news.

I wish Dan Rather would go over there and just spend his extra time reporting from the field.

[newspeak]

15. I remember the movie "Blackhawk Down"

and some were saying how Clinton abandoned those poor soldiers. Even though Poppy got them into the situation. I wonder how these supposedly sympathetic viewers would perceive whats happening today? Do they even care? Talking about our soldiers being stranded, and yet, there are thousands with inadequate equipment, privatized food and water (stories of contamination) and some doing three tours. Remember in Vietnam where two tours was enough. It seems like these chicken hawk mepublicans don't give a damn how many tours these soldiers must endure--I guess they can keep going until they're either too wounded or too dead. Hey, but they volunteered-assholes!!! They volunteered to serve their country, to protect and defend the Constitution, to protect OUR COUNTRY!!!!

[bdamomma]

16. do you think they are reporting the correct amount of casualities

or are they not giving us the true number?

[leftyladyfrommo]

18. How could we ever know for sure.

The sites I check are not the govt. ones.

[dogday]

17. And our people just keep on

dying for a lie... A freaking lie for money and greed... My child is over there and hopefully he will be home in November, we are not counting on it however, rumors are already flying that they could be detained.....

[newspeak]

19. my daughter is in the military

she'll be coming back to the states from Korea--my thoughts are with you!!!!! She has had friends who have gone to Iraq from S Korea-one who went to medic school with her was one of the first ones to be killed over there. May your child come home in November or sooner-whole and healthy!!!!

[genie_weenie]

20. Look, United Staters will never care about the killed and maimed

American Troops as long as no sacrifice is asked of them. Period. And most couldn't care less about the Iraqis.

The majority of the US views the War as having no impact on them.