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At this point, 2,000 Americans have died in Iraq. Also 98 Britons, 13 Bulgarians, two Danes, two Dutch, two Estonians, one Hungarian, 26 Italians, one Kazakh, one Latvian, 17 Poles, one Salvadoran, three Slovaks, 11 Spaniards, two Thai and 18 Ukrainians. And we've no idea how many Iraqis have died. For what? Yes, a terrible dictator is no longer in power, but are we safer now than we were more than two years ago? I'm not just talking about terrorists and ordinary people who no longer trust the intentions of the United States and its allies. The billions of dollars that have gone to fuel this war (get it? fuel?) are billions of dollars that have not been spent on the environment, on education, on health care, on those who truly need it such as the tsunami and earthquake victims in Asia, the hurricane victims in the American south, and the penniless and powerless everywhere else.
I don't think anyone can convince me that we were right to make deposing Saddam Hussein our priority, or that there truly was no other way. Yes, it's great that he's gone, but what have we got now?
I can tell you what we haven't got.
Here's a list, by name, of the US dead.
(Thank you to coppala for the link.)
And Bush won't attend a single one of their funerals.
I don't think anyone can convince me that we were right to make deposing Saddam Hussein our priority, or that there truly was no other way. Yes, it's great that he's gone, but what have we got now?
I can tell you what we haven't got.
Here's a list, by name, of the US dead.
(Thank you to coppala for the link.)
And Bush won't attend a single one of their funerals.