Wednesday, October 11, 2006

655,000

Six hundred and fifty five thousand people.

That's the number of Iraqis killed during the war, since March 2003. Thirty one percent are from the US and our allies. Here's the text of the study, from Johns Hopkins University.

From the 1990 US Census, that's more people than live in any city in the US other than New York, LA, Chicago, Houston, Philly, SD, Detroit, Dallas, Phoenix, San Antonio, San Jose, Baltimore, Indy, or San Francisco.

It's more than Milwaukee. DC. Boston. Seattle. Cleveland. New Orleans. St. Louis.

Dead.

Those of you who supported this war. Those who believed the lies. Those who gave in to fear and panic. Those who told the lies. Those who manipulated for political gain. Those who chose to go to war to gain power. Those who voted to give the President authorization to do whatever he wanted. And most especially

George Bush
Dick Cheney
Donald Rumsfeld
Condaleeza Rice
Colin Powell

May the dead visit you, awake and asleep, for eternity. Damn you all.

1 comment:

schmidlap said...

Extrapolating, Iraq has a population of about 26.8 million (source: CIA factbook). 655,000 is about 2.4%.

Applying that to the US population of about 300 million, that percentage would work out to about 7.3 million.

As much as I would like to see our own dictator deposed and tried for war crimes, I would not be willing to sacrifice 7.3 million Americans to do it.