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Message 621257 - Posted: 17 Aug 2007, 18:53:24 UTC
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I'm trying to visualize what 755917 people looks like:

9.4 full 80,000 seat capacity stadiums:












Plus another .4 of a stadium.
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Message 621314 - Posted: 17 Aug 2007, 20:37:15 UTC
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About double the approximate deaths from the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki combined, but as Stalin once say, "the death of one is tragic, the death of a million is a statistic."

Then there's the survivors...
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Message 621325 - Posted: 17 Aug 2007, 20:56:54 UTC - in response to Message 621229.  
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U.S. MILITARY DEATHS (IRAQ): 3702
U.S. MILITARY WOUNDED (IRAQ): 27409
IRAQI CIVILIAN DEATHS (MIN): 69806
'EXCESS' IRAQI DEATHS: 655000

...are we winning yet?

Yeah, since basically day one. It was like shooting Iraqis on Highway 80, I mean, like shooting fish in a barrel.

Now? They're just killing THEMSELVES. Whaddaya think, is that strategy going to make it more likely that the U.S. leaves, or less likely that the U.S. leaves?
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Message 621709 - Posted: 18 Aug 2007, 4:53:15 UTC - in response to Message 621325.  
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U.S. MILITARY DEATHS (IRAQ): 3702
U.S. MILITARY WOUNDED (IRAQ): 27409
IRAQI CIVILIAN DEATHS (MIN): 69806
'EXCESS' IRAQI DEATHS: 655000

...are we winning yet?

Yeah, since basically day one. It was like shooting Iraqis on Highway 80, I mean, like shooting fish in a barrel.

Now? They're just killing THEMSELVES. Whaddaya think, is that strategy going to make it more likely that the U.S. leaves, or less likely that the U.S. leaves?

Which brings to the fore that we should never have gone over there in the first place. If they want to kill each other, that's their business and let them live with themselves. Saddam was their bastard and they should have handled it themselves in the first place.
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Message 622100 - Posted: 18 Aug 2007, 17:22:30 UTC - in response to Message 621709.  

Which brings to the fore that we should never have gone over there in the first place. If they want to kill each other, that's their business and let them live with themselves. Saddam was their bastard and they should have handled it themselves in the first place.

Exactly, this is why begging for gov't meddling is a bad idea...
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Message 623717 - Posted: 21 Aug 2007, 0:47:28 UTC

U.S. MILITARY DEATHS (IRAQ): 3707
U.S. MILITARY WOUNDED (IRAQ): 27409
IRAQI CIVILIAN DEATHS (MIN): 70139
EXCESS IRAQI DEATHS: 655000
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Message 625361 - Posted: 24 Aug 2007, 8:06:54 UTC

U.S. MILITARY DEATHS (IRAQ): 3723
U.S. MILITARY WOUNDED (IRAQ): 27506
IRAQI CIVILIAN DEATHS (MIN): 70264
EXCESS IRAQI DEATHS: 655000
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