Tuesday, November 16, 2004

Just something to check out, part three

This one involves no chuckling, however. Via TalkingPointsMemo, it's a Washington Post feature which contains, it says, information on every American who has been killed in Iraq.

During Vietnam we used to hold antiwar memorials consisting of reading the names of the American war dead. I think it's time to revive the practice.

As then, we have no names to read of the fallen among Iraqis. But there are estimates ranging from over 10,000 to the recent study that projected 100,000 "excess deaths" since the war's start. Perhaps that could be made part of it: Using the lower figure to illustrate, the reading of each name could be punctuated by someone saying "and 10 more Iraqis."

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