When asked about the families of the 4,000 KIA in Iraq Dana Perino said ....

[Botany]

.... something to the effect "Don't let him/her die in vain. See
the mission through to victory." (very rough quote) aka Make sure
that you keep up the war and more people die.

When is enough, enough? How many more must die because
of this crazy monkey and the fact nobody wants to tell him that
he made a mistake.


Iraq the last 24 hours:

One of the 2 major oil pipelines have been blown up,
the Green Zone has been hit again, and in the south
Shi forces loyal to Sadr are in open conflict w/ Shi
troops loyal to Maliki. And as of 3/19 we are starting
year # 6 in Iraq.


http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/03/27/iraq.main/?ir...

Iraq's offensive against what it characterizes as "outlaws" of hard-line Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr's Mehdi Army militia began Tuesday in Basra, Iraq's second largest city.

Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, who has been overseeing the operation in southern Iraq, has given militants an ultimatum to surrender their weapons by Saturday.

The fighting, which also saw Baghdad's heavily fortified Green Zone -- home to the U.S. Embassy and the Iraqi government -- come under fire, has threatened to unravel a delicate al-Sadr cease-fire credited with reducing bloodshed between Sunnis and Shiites.

Since Tuesday, clashes in Basra and throughout Iraq's Shiite heartland have left more than 100 dead and many wounded in Basra, Baghdad, Hilla, Kut, Karbala and Diwaniya.

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A provincial council official also said insurgents sabotaged an oil pipeline Thursday in Zubeir, a town near Basra. The attack sparked a large fire on the pipeline, which transfers crude oil to tanks in the city.

Meanwhile, the FBI identified the remains of two U.S. contractors who had been missing in Iraq for more than a year, a bureau spokesman said Thursday.

[magellan]

1. If they cared about the lives lost

...they would never have lied this country into invading Iraq in the first place.

[panader0]

2. The war is issue #1 to me.

I can suffer $4 gas. I can suffer paying more for milk and eggs and bread. I can suffer the bad market for construction. But I cannot look at any more pictures of burnt children. Besides the enormous immorality and inhumanity of the war, the economic
ripples here in the US are huge. But really, how much money is a burnt child worth? END THE WAR FIRST!

[Arctic Dave]

3. That answer always pisses me off

"We must continue the killing because too many people have been killed".