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Friday, March 10, 2006

Weeping, Crying and...

...distraught. That's how the parents, children, spouses and friends of American soldiers behave when those troops come home in a coffin or a body bag. How do you suppose the familes and friends of the Iraqi's feel when their citizens are killed? I suspect it is much the same...


From Bush Out (by Gandhi) - click here to read more...

But now a new study published in the Lancet Medical Journal says the U.S. invasion has been responsible for the deaths of over 250,000 civilians in Iraq:

The report in the British journal is based on the work of teams from the Johns Hopkins University and Columbia University in the U.S., and the Al-Mustansiriya University in Baghdad.A similar methodology was used in the late 1990's to calculate the number of deaths from the war in Kosovo, put at 10,000.
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2 comments:

  1. pissed off patricia12:38 PM

    Yeah, I'm pretty sure the pain of loss is the same in any language, in any country. But our soldiers signed up to be in a war if it became necessary. (which it didn't) The people of Iraq didn't get a choice before our bombs were dropped on them. They are the victims, and I feel deeply sorry for what we have done to their families and their lives.

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  2. Bozo Funny1:34 PM

    Your point is well taken, though I would point out that a lot of our troops signed on as National Guard - expecting to do no more than a few weeks and weekends a year, maybe helping out with hurricane recovery. Still, whether you realize it's a possibility or not, it's still a horrible loss to lose someone so young as most of those being killed on either side.

    Thanks for commenting.

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