2,671 U.S. Troops now dead in W's war of choice in Iraq

[Erika]

Anbar province lost and all our troops lost in the defense.

At www.icasualties.org

(The war that the GOP wants to hide because there was no reason for it)

[babylonsister]

1. How many 'severely' wounded, how many Iraqis? Madness.

"We" SUCK!

[oasis]

2. Bush's War. (eom)

[kaygore]

3. We need to stop calling it a "war" (Republican terminology) and

call it what it actually is, a fiasco.

[babylonsister]

5. Or a lame occupation. To me, fiasco seems too frivilous.

But I'm anxious to read that book!

[kaygore]

6. OK, anything but "war"--I just picked a word

[babylonsister]

7. Dimson's "FOLLY" fits the bill. nt

[Erika]

4. According to news, we've now lost Anbar province

50,000 square miles now controlled by Al Qaeda with no hopes of our regaining control. Hundreds of our troops have died there.
Way to go Bush. As Tony Snow said, our dead are "just numbers", right?

[Wells]

8. Unbelievable numerology....

By some accounts, the number of deaths on Sept 11th, 2001 is 2662 or around there. There are other death toll numbers; the propaganda made-for-TV 'Path to 9/11' put the number at 2973.

Still, if the 2662 is an official number written down on some file somewhere, the death toll in Iraq and Afghanistan reached that very number today on Sept 11th, five years later.

The prezadint's speech-thing today has to be among his TOP 5 worst. Though other speeches were as inappropriately politicized, this one seemed particularly heartless. It met his standard for poor wording, baldfaced lies, intellectual disconnect, inability to empathize, etc. I was able to bear 15 of its 17 minutes before I just couldn't listen even critically.