US death toll in Viet… Iraq hits 2,000

October 26, 2005 by paul
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Oh, the irony – as I’m reading the BBC article: US death toll in Iraq hits 2,000 my MP3 player randomly selects Alice Cooper’s “Unholy War”.

Staff Sgt George Alexander, 34, wounded by a bomb in the insurgent stronghold of Samarra earlier this month, became the 2,000th US death when he died of his wounds on Tuesday.

Unofficial estimates put Iraqi civilian deaths since the war at about 25,000.

So when is enough enough, George?

Meanwhile Yahoo reports “Majority of Americans now feel Iraq war was wrong”. Wow, they’re finally waking up and realising Bush & his cronies have been lying since Day 1.

The latest poll also found that 66 percent of Americans believed
President George W. Bush was doing a “poor” or “only fair” job of handling Iraq, against 32 percent who deemed it “excellent” or “pretty good”.

I know US “news” sources are so sanitised that, unless people deliberately look further afield for their information, it’s easy to believe Bush is doing an “excellent” job, but 32%?!

Sure, it’s always easier to see the problem when you’re looking in from the outside, but sometimes the problem is so obvious that the only way to avoid it is to stick your head in the sand.

Before anyone thinks about dragging “9/11″ up again, let me warn you: it’s not a valid argument for illegally invading another country, and any comments trying to use this as a rationale for the devastation that Bush is causing will be deleted – if you really believe that, then I suggest you just move along.

Here‘s a poignant article, and an image I’ll be adopting for my LiveJournal.

I also found a well-made video called “Did you ever wonder what 2000 looks like?“. Note (from their site): “Please note that this is a 7 meg file and will take approximately 2 minutes to download with a high speed connection. But don’t let this discourage you from watching, this is a MUST see! And make sure your volume is up.”