Tuesday, October 25, 2005
2,000 Dead Americans
Kos diarist thereisnospoon notes this milestone -- and how BushCo plans to hide it from us. Meanwhile, by the most conservative of the logical estimates, the number of Iraqis killed in the three years since Bush invaded is, at minimum, around 34,000 as of October 23 (26,690 civilian deaths plus 7,350 troop deaths). And that's just from direct hits. The respected British medical journal The Lancet estimated last year that the total of invasion-related deaths (such deaths due to lack of food/water/other causes) was at least 100,000.
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