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Thread #77868   Message #1395331
Posted By: Kaleea
01-Feb-05 - 03:06 AM
Thread Name: BS: Pax Americana Kills More Iraqis
Subject: RE: BS: Pax Americana Kills More Iraqis
I'm only a Music major, so I can only count to 4. I can't do the math. But when pappy bush decided to drop the first wave of bombs for a week or so way back a few years, I was listening to the news & the Pentagon fellers telling about how before there were this many and that many Royal Guard troops & thus many, & how there are only there now--& I thought with my mushy gray mattter, that must be almost 200,000. Sure 'nuff, in a day or so the network news anchor said that the Pentagon thought that about 180,000 Iraqi troops were killed.   In the short span of less than a week, one hundred and eighty thousand human beings were dead. 180,000 husbands, fathers, grandfathers, brothers, uncles, sons, cousins, friends, neighbors. Multiply that times 20 or 30 family members who are going to be grieving--that's alot of people. Is it any wonder that people over there are angry?
    How many more? Which figures are "closest" to the "truth"? Are these numbers enough? Will there ever be enough dead people to satisfy those who hunger for war?
    LBJ used to have nightmares about the corpses of thousands of our troops from Viet Nam marching past him. How do the presidents bush sleep?