1,000 Americans Dead In Afghanistan

[Mari333]

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TIME TO BRING THEM HOME AND END THIS INSANITY

[Swede]

1. The 146th Canadian was killed this week.

Coalition deaths in Afghanistan by country

UK: 285
Canada: 146
Germany: 47
France: 41
Denmark: 31
Spain: 26*
Italy: 22
Netherlands: 21
Poland: 16
Australia: 11
Romania: 11
Estonia: 7
Norway: 5
Sweden: 4
Czech Republic: 3
Latvia: 3
Hungary: 2
Portugal: 2
South Korea: 2
Turkey: 2
Belgium: 1
Finland: 1
Jordan: 1
Lithuania: 1

[annm4peace]

2. how many times do we have to say enough

Six times I have participated in reading off names of troops killed in Afghanistan at vigils or protests.

Four times and have typed up, or written on posters the names of troops killed in Afghanistan.

One time have cut and pasted the pictures of troops killed in Afghanistan who were from MN, that were made into colored posters that were framed and given to our Senators and Representatives of MN. (I wonder what Norm Coleman did with his)

Four times I have hugged the parent of a troop killed in Afghanistan.

One time I walked among the names and the boots representing troops
killed in Afghanistan and tried to say a small prayer for each name, sometimes recognizing the names of those from IA or MN.
...
One time helped the Vets for Peace to carry a long banner with the names of troops killed in the Veterans Parade.

I remember reaching 100, 500, and now 1000.

Countless times, have emailed or called Legislatures to stop the madness,
countless times have came up to them to stop the madness,
countless times have emailed others to help stop the madness.

This week or next our Representatives might vote to give 33 Billion more to the Occupation in Afghanistan.. and how many more troops will die after that vote?

One time, please make that call.

[soupkitchen]

3. Reminds me of a poem, a prayer really: Iraq Death Toll 4,000

4,000 dead in five
Is only 800 a year
Less than 70 a month really
Sixteen or seventeen a week
Two and change a day.

What price two and change a day?
If soldiers lives were dollars
Their blood would barely pay for carfare.

So numbers serve their purpose
Muffling carnage
Beneath abstract aggregates
Impersonalized totals amounting to nothing more
Than a statistical means
Of dulling the senses
To the toll of war

A toll always paid in ones.

By the ones who die
And by the ones who bury their dead.

But each death a self-sufficient tragedy
Each death a complete and self-sufficient tragedy
Neither made greater nor lessened
When amplified by thousands.

Hear the death bells tolling
Pleading for mercy on our souls

The death bells plead mercy
On our souls.

As they echo plaintively
Through all of bloodied history
Pleading always for each death
To be remembered
As an irreparable tragedy
By all that God should hold holy
A complete and irreparable tragedy.

[MikeMc]

4. Agreed. Out of Afghanistan and Iraq, Now.

The Icasualties web site reports 1080 US dead in Afghanistan, 4397 US dead in Iraq, as of 5/19.

http://icasualties.org/

[iandhr]

5. make you want to cry