Naming the 3500. How Many This Time Next Year?

[babylonsister]

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2007/6/4/123540/5442

Naming the 3500. How Many This Time Next Year?
by Meteor Blades
Mon Jun 04, 2007 at 11:49:59 AM PDT

Just a year ago, on Father's Day, several of my friends and I stood at the entrance to a shopping mall in Los Angeles and read out the names and hometowns of the 2500 American soldiers, marines, and sailors who had by that time been killed in the Iraq war and occupation.

This coming weekend, sad to say, we'll be doing this again. It will take longer because 1000 more are dead.

A thousand dead women and men. As you can see from the map created by the dedicated people at the Iraq Casualty Coalition Count (http://icasualties.org/oif/), the dead come from places you probably never heard of: Aliceville, Eagle River, Woodruff, Milford, Rigby, Streamwood, Kendallville, Horn Lake, Creedmore, Nankin, Dillsburg. And from cities we all know: Dallas, Tucson, Los Angeles, Seattle, Omaha, Chicago, Philadelphia, St. Louis, New Orleans.

A thousand more Americans dead. Every one of them because of the imperial hubris, rapacity, and deceit of the Bush Administration. A regime of feculent ideologues that took us into Iraq shouting "9/11" as if it were "Remember the Alamo," and spouting a cover story that, as Peter Eisner and Knut Royce point out in The Italian Letter, "it knew to be fake to convince the Congress and the American public that Saddam Hussein was seeking materials to make a nuclear bomb."

This weekend we'll also be saying aloud the names of the 276 other members of the "coalition" who have died. And the names of a few of the hundreds of contractors and the more than 100 journalists who have been killed. As well as a few hundred of the names we've gathered of the hundreds of thousands of Iraqi civilians - children, men, women - who have become fatalities as a consequence of a project that was in the making before George W. Bush ever sat down in the Oval Office and pounded his chest saying, "I am the President!"

more...

[wakeme2008]

1. At current rate we will hit 4,000 by Sept

:cry: :cry:

[mediawatch]

2. What have we done?

What have we started and what will become of us? This is truly heart breaking and disgusting. Lebanon and now Turkey in Northern Iraq. I see no end in site only death and destruction. Someone tell me I am excoriating please!

[jerryme1]

3. think also of all those permanently and severely disabled. Many of them would have died in previous

wars. Bush is a butcher.

[babylonsister]

4. Amen. nt