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For 1,000 troops, there is no going home (NYTimes, September 9, 2004)
2,000 dead: As Iraq tours stretch on, a grim mark (NY Times, October 26, 2005)
3,000 deaths in Iraq, countless tears at home (NY Times, January 1, 2007)
U.S. death toll in Iraq war hits 4,000 (NY Times, March 25, 2008)
2,000 dead: As Iraq tours stretch on, a grim mark (NY Times, October 26, 2005)
3,000 deaths in Iraq, countless tears at home (NY Times, January 1, 2007)
U.S. death toll in Iraq war hits 4,000 (NY Times, March 25, 2008)
Estimates of Iraq War were not close to ballpark (NY Times, March 18, 2008):
At the outset of the Iraq war, the Bush administration predicted that it would cost $50 billion to $60 billion to oust Saddam Hussein, restore order and install a new government.
Five years in, the Pentagon tags the cost of the Iraq war at roughly $600 billion and counting. Joseph E. Stiglitz, a Nobel Prize-winning economist and critic of the war, pegs the long-term cost at more than $4 trillion.
At the start of the Iraq War, there were 1,100 American journalists in Iraq. Today, there are under 100.
Posted by Joseph F. Mailander @ 3/24/2008 10:55:00 AM
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Yeah, and this is the first time since the Revolutionary Wars that America has had to borrow money to finance a war.
Anyone watching the John Adams mini on HBO, how he's going hat in hand from France to Holland, to...?
That's what we've been reduced to again, but this time to China, one of the most totalitarian governments left on the planet. So we have no guts to speak up when it comes to Tibet. (Neither do the Europeans or neighbor India, sadly -- France threatening to boycott or protest the Olympics is turning out to have the most guts.)
And we're in serious danger of our dollar being replaced by the Euro (or yuan or yen, maybe the rupee or Mexican peso) as common currency.
As Bill Maher says, don't scrap the penny: just rename it the dollar.
BUT Obama and Hillary want to replace spending on Iraq with their spending schemes for healthcare, legalizing illegal immigrants, etc.
There's a good editorial in today's L A Times, questioning whether it's even constitutional for Hillary and Obama to mandate that everyone buy insurance from private insurers, as they want to do (what would have been Arnold's plan).
That's very different from MediCal, which is made available to the poor at government/taxpayer expense.
Wouldn't that just make insurers even more dictatorial and powerful than they are now?
As for illegal immigration: Milton Friedman made clear that you can't have a society with general social benefits unless there's a strictly controlled population. That's basic economics, not "racism."
At the start of the Iraq War, there were 1,100 American journalists in Iraq. Today, there are under 100.
That is because the American public would rather watch "American Idol" or "Dancing with the Stars", the majority of Americans are idiots.
The people who read this and other blogs are the exception, who still read and follow politics and the news.
I get my Iraq War news from the soliders who write blogs.
http://wordsfromwarriors.blogspot.com/
I have been seeing this number 4,000 dead all day long round the internet as if it was big number. 4,000 Americans is sad, of course and my heart goes out to their families. Hundreds of thousands of dead people who were not Americans is a much bigger number and every one of them had families too.
How do we know when this "war" has been won? Usually it's when one side surrenders or a peace agreement is reached. But who is that has to surrender before this thing is over?
We can never "win" the war, we don't even know who the enemy is.
We are just trying to keep the Iraqi people from killing themselves.
So let's leave then and stop wasting our money.
Who the fuck would vote for McCain after this? Who would vote for a Republican after this?
You sad people? If you do, then you're just plain stupid.
In WWII, if we lost 4000 a week, it was a good week. 4000 over a 5 yr span is sad, yes, but historically amazing.
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