Vladislav Davidzonthe art of doing the impossible – thoughts on the great turning

It seems that the number of dead in Iraq now exceeds the casualties of Vietnam in its early years, according to this article reprinted from Reuters.

“The U.S. death toll in Iraq has surpassed the number of American soldiers killed during the first three years of the Vietnam War, the brutal Cold War conflict that cast a shadow over U.S. affairs for more than a generation.”

It seems that the number of dead in Iraq now exceeds the casualties of Vietnam in its early years, according to this article reprinted from Reuters.

“The U.S. death toll in Iraq has surpassed the number of American soldiers killed during the first three years of the Vietnam War, the brutal Cold War conflict that cast a shadow over U.S. affairs for more than a generation.”

Statistics about the dead in a war are evil. They dehumanize the worth of each person who has died, discounting the suffering and the meaning of the loss of to their family. But statistics are rather powerful in considering the overall
impact of government decisions, especially when the decision in question is one about making illegal, pre-emptive strikes on a foreign nation.

And it seems that statistics are very much against Bush’s madness, and now directly contradict the ridiculous claims of Iraq going so well. Yet a CNN headline yells “White House: U.S. not leaving until Saddam found”. Uhhuh.

As the US troops rolled into Baghdad, the Iraqi information minister was telling the world that the Iraqi army was slaughtering the Americans, that our troops were nowhere near Baghdad. Those comments made him the laughing stock of every “news source” out there, and yet these same “news sources” don’t seem to be laughing much at the comments coming out of the White House and Pentagon about our “progress” in Iraq.

Liberal bias from the corporate media, indeed.