Know how many of our troops have died in Iraq as of today?

[ThomWV]

4,204

Just thought a reminder was in order.

[NMDemDist2]

1. I knew it was above 4K

thanks Thom

[G_j]

2. K&R

[GrizzlyMan]

3. Want a good chill?

Go on YouTube and watch news clips from the 2004 race or Michael Moore's documentary Slacker Uprising when everyone was talking about 1,000 deaths.

[alstephenson]

4. K & R (with great sadness)...

[pork medley]

5. so what? it's still a negligible percentage of total iraq war deaths

[ThomWV]

6. It only matters as much as you care.

[VOX]

16. "So what"? These are *our* family and friends, sent off to fight a rich man's war...that's what.

And yes, the number of civilian Iraqi deaths is nothing but shocking and reprehensible. American leaders should know better than to participate in this kind of immoral and extraordinarily un-American behavior in the first place.

But our sons and daughters, brothers and sisters and family who've been deployed to Iraq are thoroughly deserving of our aid and support, particularly when they come home damaged and have trouble finding work and fitting in -- all areas in which neocon leaders have failed miserably over the last several decades.

[madokie]

7. How terrible that they are dying in vain

hardly anyone pays any attention to them anymore it seems. Barely be anything in our morning paper and nothing in the evening paper. How can they command a man to die for a mistake and a criminal act.

bushco will pay even if we don't do it ourselves.

[AlCzervik]

8. i know, my nephew is on tour #3.

hopefully he'll be coming home sometime in the next year or so.

[az chela]

9. And yet the killing goes on as if no one cares.God damn it

STOP THIS FUCKING WAR NOW

[lyonn]

10. With our next President will we be allowed to publicly view

the return of the fallen? Was bush ashamed? It is so dishonorable to demand that the public not be able to view their return in a flag draped coffin. Let us hope that the killings will stop in both countries we went to war with.....

[bluesmail]

11. We need the reminder because the corporate media won't report.

[Historic NY]

12. 4204 Americans

http://icasualties.org/oif/

[ThomWV]

15. Not really. I recall that at least a few of them despirately wanted citizenship, but didn't have it

Still trying to pass the written test I suppose ....

[spooked]

13. 1 MILLION Iraqis Dead and 5 MILLION ORPHANS in Iraq

Thanks to Bush, in addition to our own dead and tens of thousands maimed for life.

[msedano]

14. How much land does a Veteran need?

4204, four thousand two hundred four, soldiers have all the land a dead soldier gets. A plot of earth 4' x 6' x 6'.

Injured and disabled Veterans should be assured of ongoing attention to their health needs. But as we've witnessed with the current administration and Walter Reed Hospital, our ungrateful nation prefers to cut costs and hide away our war injured.

Over in Los Angeles, the acreage of the largest home for injured Veterans is being chipped away for private interests. Already a substantial portion of the land has been leased to such interests as a hotel laundry, a private girls school, a theatre complex. In 2007, Congressman Henry Waxman with the collusion of Senators Feinstein and Boxer, along with a shitload of regional Democratic Party politicians, gave away a choice parcel of hospital land to a private group for a "veterans" park. Most recently, the California Democratic Party's Executive Board refused to entertain a motion--similar to one adopted by the California American Legion--to rescind the give-away of Veterans land.

Let us hope the Obama Veterans Administration stops theft of Veteran rehabilitation space and makes the care of injured and disabled Veterans a cause celebre.

Here's a piece by a protesting Vietnam era Vet on the land grab.

http://www.veteranstoday.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=3914

Here's an article on the CDP's rejection of the Handy resolution for rescission:

http://www.smmirror.com/MainPages/DisplayArticleDetails.asp?eid=8985

Read and weep.