We are still losing three US soldiers per day in Iraq. And nobody cares.

[hector459]

It blows my mind. And Bush lives in a "transparent" country. Except you won't see the dead soldiers coming home in flag-drapped coffins.

[usregimechange]

1. They have freedom don't they? Want an answer it is freedom.

[EVDebs]

2. And John McCain says we'll be there '10 to 20 years'

"that's not so bad". The Republicans Bizarre Parallel Universe, by Bob Herbert spelled it all out !

[DELUSIONAL]

3. To be brutally frank -- I don't know what most Americans really care

about. Except getting home as quickly as possible so that they can turn their TV on. Most people in the US are so damned ignorant about what's happening in the rest of the world -- including what bush is DOING to the rest of the world.

The people that do care are the millions who tried to get this war STOPPED before it started. Plus the family and friends of each of the people who die in the war -- on both sides.

For every 3 US troops that die -- perhaps 30 or more Iraqis die.

That bushie was able to get enough votes to even steal this last election doesn't say much for a huge number of Americans.

[uppityperson]

4. 1487 as of right now.

Last one named is Lance Corporal Trevor D. Aston
I care and I check http://icasualties.org/oif/ everyday. It is distressing. Will there be any media attention at 1500 since nice round numbers are easily understood by the feeble minded (not meaning the media but mainstream people).

[Johonny]

9. It's not just the dead.

The death rate from being injured in Iraq is very low. The US has come a long way in keeping injured soldiers alive. The real number is the total wounded and killed. It's the wounded that will be coming home to a country that is cutting Vet hospitals and benifits just at a time when we are very likely to have a large number of long term survivors.

[leftofthedial]

5. why do you hate freedom?

what are you, a Saddam lover?

Why do you hate our troops?

Don't you know they are heroes fighting and dying for liberty and to restore democracy to that part of the world?

You probably wish we didn't have terror on the run, don't you?

</sarcasm>

[uppityperson]

11. Yup, we've turned the corner.

Why do you hate America?

[leftofthedial]

15. can you believe it?

through the looking glass

[indepat]

6. Hardly anybody cares what is going on over there

[readmoreoften]

7. Af-where-istan? Are we still even there? n/t

[readmoreoften]

8. Ah, next year you'll be saying the same thing about Iran n/t

[Smarmie Doofus]

10. I think this: if the American educational system was capable ...

of producing adults that had any knowledge at all of the culture or history of the middle east ( not to mention the rest of the world; not to mention their *own* history), the war would be over tomorrow for lack of Americans willing to wage it.

The ignorance of (and lack of *curiosity* about !!!!) all of the above among the American adolescents waging the war is, frankly, appalling.

Meanwhile, our schools obsess about the getting the pledge of allegiance( with the inclusion of the Judeo Christian god, of course) rammed down the throat of every student and couldn't care less about teaching them to find the middle-east on the map. These issues are NOT unrelated.

Also appalling, if I may say, is the absolute SILENCE on these issues of leaders of this party (Clinton, Schumer, Reid, Edwards, et al0. And Howard Dean wants me send money to *whom* to support *what* ???

[CTyankee]

12. This is why

I am so upset about the Pell grants cutbacks. We are forcing more of our youth into the armed services as a way to get ahead in our society. It was one thing back in the Clinton era but now it is deadly. The Pell Grant cutback was a clever way to insure that Bush has his army of the future!

[Deja Q]

13. If people are thinking they're dying for a good cause,

let them.

Personally, they're doing what they're told, or they believe the pap about fighting terrorism as if we're utterly innocent or free from consquences as they think they can be, and I won't forget that the US needs to clean up the mess it has made - and not pander to Europe for help, especially how we'd treated them. And if Europe did comply with *'s demands requests, * wuill do the same thing again and again.

The European Union should be like SuperNanny (thank you CBS!) and send George to the NaughtyRoom... }(

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

14. Cannon fodder reduced to statistics and voter bait for politicians.

The politicians will weep crocodile tears over them and send more of them to be "heroes" to kill and die for their ambitions.

[guajira]

16. I Put a Message on My answering Machine

Asking callers to "take a minute to think about the more than 1400 Americans killed in Iraq as a result of Bush's* invasion for oil".

Sure has cut down on the number of messages left on my machine!! LOL