Comments | bountyhunter: I can't fucking believe it.

bountyhunter

I can't fucking believe it.

Jan 31, 2008 10:23

The Department of Defense has identified 3,925 American service members who have died since the start of the Iraq war. It confirmed the death of the following American on Tuesday:

MILLER, Mikeal W., 22, Sgt., Army; Albany, Ore.; Second Infantry nytimes.com ( Read more... )

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gutlesswonder January 31 2008, 16:59:15 UTC

...wait, did you know that person?

bountyhunter January 31 2008, 17:33:50 UTC

no, i'm just shocked at the death toll.

gutlesswonder January 31 2008, 23:16:33 UTC

Oh, okay. Well. I dunno. I'm just not all that shocked about it. It was unnecessary, and that's sad, but I'm pretty sure more people died in 9/11, and that was the ultimate in unnecessary death--no one expected to die that day, but they did.

I wish they weren't dead either, but over the course of--what is it, 5, 6 years?--it's not an obscene death toll, especially since none of them were drafted. I just wish the live ones could come home.

bountyhunter February 1 2008, 16:37:10 UTC

Actually, we exceeded the 9/11 death toll a while ago.

It's an obscene death toll because we have no reason to be there. There isn't even the flimsy justification of them having had a hand in 9/11 anymore. We're just there.

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jeweltoned January 31 2008, 20:12:57 UTC

did your hear the republican debates last night? Mitt Romeny and John McCain were fighting like, "I know you want to end the war! Just admit it!" and Mccain's like "NO no no YOU want to end the war!!! Stop trying to make me look all liberal."

...who are these people?

bountyhunter February 1 2008, 16:37:35 UTC

the people who are going to lose the upcoming election.

goodwillhunter1 February 2 2008, 03:40:46 UTC

I know. It got a lot more personal for me when my sister's bf went away to boot camp. I think he's in a base in Alaska right now and probably will be deployed to Afghanistan. They're staying together even though she promised us they wouldn't.
What those casualty numbers hide is the staggering number of people who are injured but survive. Our military armor technology has matured to the point where people are surviving attacks that would have killed them only a few years ago. They live, but end up horribly maimed, burned and brain damaged.