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autorank (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-07-07 01:38 PM Original message |
Why doesn't anybody talk about this? |
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goodgd_yall (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-07-07 01:42 PM Response to Original message |
1. Because America doesn't really give a f* about the "enemies'" casualties n/t |
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stillcool (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-07-07 01:43 PM Response to Original message |
2. I did use the link |
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autorank (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-07-07 01:47 PM Response to Reply #2 |
7. Can't imagine anyone sill enough to dispute these figures. |
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stillcool (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-07-07 02:25 PM Response to Reply #7 |
23. He/She used the .. |
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autorank (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-07-07 07:47 PM Response to Reply #23 |
29. Hey there...you're right. I find the two surveys compelling, though in that they agree. |
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TwilightGardener (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-07-07 01:43 PM Response to Original message |
3. Americans don't want to dwell on our "great shame", as you put it. |
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autorank (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-07-07 01:46 PM Response to Reply #3 |
4. The process of dehumanizing "the enemy" worked. Maybe these aren't people to some people? |
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TwilightGardener (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-07-07 01:52 PM Response to Reply #4 |
10. I think it's more like we look at most Iraqis as bratty orphaned children that |
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autorank (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-07-07 07:42 PM Response to Reply #10 |
28. Bingo, hense the chastising attitude because they weren't doing enough. |
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sam sarrha (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-07-07 01:46 PM Response to Original message |
5. about the same now as the Chinese "Genocide" in Tibet, which is the size of western europe |
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dogday (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-07-07 01:46 PM Response to Original message |
6. Then we would have to admit the Colossal mistake |
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autorank (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-07-07 01:48 PM Response to Reply #6 |
8. You know, it may be the worst... |
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truedelphi (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-07-07 02:15 PM Response to Reply #8 |
22. Am always speechless in the face of such painful truth |
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autorank (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-07-07 07:49 PM Response to Reply #22 |
30. Just tell them this.. |
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AuntPatsy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-07-07 01:50 PM Response to Original message |
9. When I attempt to discuss this with people I know, you would be surprised how many |
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Lydia Leftcoast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-07-07 01:55 PM Response to Reply #9 |
12. Yup, lots of racism and xenophobia in the American psyche |
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AuntPatsy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-07-07 01:59 PM Response to Reply #12 |
14. Well I think the continued existence of Rush and his kind is also proof of our countries |
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HowHasItComeToThis (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-08-07 12:49 AM Response to Reply #14 |
48. BINGO |
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autorank (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-07-07 10:40 PM Response to Reply #12 |
42. The right has to use racism and MSM has to focus on it. This jock & his audience |
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autorank (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-07-07 07:51 PM Response to Reply #9 |
31. Denial will be increasingly difficult. |
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End Of The Road (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-07-07 01:52 PM Response to Original message |
11. Failed MSM |
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autorank (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-07-07 07:52 PM Response to Reply #11 |
32. That's true. They're both actively and passively complicit in the whole mess! |
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polichick (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-07-07 01:58 PM Response to Original message |
13. The administration doesn't count brown people... |
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flashl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-07-07 01:59 PM Response to Original message |
15. We didn't acknowledge the human costs of Iraq sanctions |
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autorank (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-07-07 07:58 PM Response to Reply #15 |
33. We sure didn't and they were phenomenal. |
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bleever (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-07-07 02:07 PM Response to Original message |
16. Innocent people |
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autorank (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-07-07 07:59 PM Response to Reply #16 |
35. Right, they did nothing. |
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Double T (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-07-07 02:09 PM Response to Original message |
17. bushco's atrocity was supported by every American............ |
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rockybelt (938 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-07-07 02:11 PM Response to Original message |
18. It depends on who is counting |
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autorank (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-07-07 08:06 PM Response to Reply #18 |
36. Yep |
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Benhurst (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-07-07 02:13 PM Response to Original message |
19. Because we are still being governed by that day of infamy, |
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autorank (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-07-07 08:09 PM Response to Reply #19 |
38. The theft of a nation, right out in the open, by a bunch of thugs. |
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babylonsister (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-07-07 02:13 PM Response to Original message |
20. THANK YOU for talking about it, autorank. |
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autorank (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-07-07 08:12 PM Response to Reply #20 |
39. You're welcome. This has been so effectively ignored, even informed people |
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bagrman (889 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-07-07 02:15 PM Response to Original message |
21. What about the permanent gift of DU munitions. Nobody much knows |
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BrklynLiberal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-07-07 03:09 PM Response to Reply #21 |
27. ..and that affects the US soldiers as well. |
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OneBlueSky (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-07-07 02:50 PM Response to Original message |
24. petitions to Congress aren't worth crap . . . Congress doesn't care what we think . . . n/t |
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autorank (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-07-07 08:16 PM Response to Reply #24 |
40. You're right. I wanted to post what Information Clearning House had without editing. |
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Tierra_y_Libertad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-07-07 03:01 PM Response to Original message |
25. "One man's death is a tragedy. The death of millions is a statistic." Joe Stalin |
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BrklynLiberal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-07-07 03:09 PM Response to Original message |
26. I remember when the Lancet figures first same out..and everyone in the MSM was poo-pooing them |
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autorank (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-07-07 10:47 PM Response to Reply #26 |
43. There are trolls everywhere. This was not controversial. |
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KoKo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-07-07 07:58 PM Response to Original message |
34. "THEY" are keepin the Powder Dry...we have to get through another "Selection" for '08 |
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autorank (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-07-07 09:51 PM Response to Reply #34 |
41. Hey, man, that "powder" was purchased at a premium... |
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riverdeep (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-08-07 10:23 AM Response to Reply #34 |
58. Dennis Kucinich, Mike Gravel, and Ron Paul. |
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NMMNG (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-07-07 08:06 PM Response to Original message |
37. Guilt? |
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Orwellian_Ghost (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-07-07 11:59 PM Response to Original message |
44. Essential reminder |
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Orwellian_Ghost (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-08-07 12:01 AM Response to Original message |
45. More than 4 million Iraqis displaced |
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riverdeep (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-08-07 10:26 AM Response to Reply #45 |
59. The story of those refugees is a stunning tragedy. |
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Kurovski (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-08-07 12:35 AM Response to Original message |
46. K&R. (nt) |
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msedano (682 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-08-07 12:44 AM Response to Original message |
47. you and i killed those people |
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Tom Joad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-08-07 01:18 AM Response to Original message |
49. but, but, Bush is going to spend more on domestic programs... |
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stillrockin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-08-07 01:34 AM Response to Original message |
50. There is silence because |
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Tom Joad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-08-07 01:37 AM Response to Reply #50 |
51. dems seem set to continue funding lil' adolf's war on Iraq. |
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HCE SuiGeneris (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-08-07 01:46 AM Response to Original message |
52. "It is our great shame and there is nothing but silence." |
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upi402 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-08-07 02:38 AM Response to Original message |
53. true OP, good point |
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Whisp (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-08-07 02:40 AM Response to Original message |
54. and this number does not include the Clinton war on Iraq |
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stellanoir (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-08-07 07:31 AM Response to Original message |
55. George Dubious who popularized the phrase "fuzzy math" |
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annabanana (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-08-07 07:38 AM Response to Reply #55 |
57. Projection. Early and clear example.. . . . n/t |
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tom_paine (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-08-07 07:35 AM Response to Original message |
56. Self- and Bushie mediated censorship of a type we have all become accustomed to |
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autorank (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-08-07 02:46 PM Response to Reply #56 |
62. tom_paine, that's a great explanation!!! |
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riverdeep (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-08-07 10:35 AM Response to Original message |
60. This is the first war where they don't show the dead coming home. |
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autorank (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-08-07 02:56 PM Response to Reply #60 |
63. The indifference to our own losses - exemplified by the suicide story. |
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pleah (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-08-07 01:31 PM Response to Original message |
61. The majority of self-rititious assholes |
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Orwellian_Ghost (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-08-07 10:31 PM Response to Original message |
64. Essential reminder |
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