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24 de Marzo, 2008
1 Million + 4,000 [Killed]
Categorized under Guerra , Headlines , Iraq the Casbah | Tags: Iraq
OKAY, maybe it's five hundred thousand. Maybe only two hundred thousand Iraqis are dead. Whatever, I don't personally feel 4,000 Americans' lives—ones who chose to make the military their business—are somehow more worth my sorrow than the same, or ten or one hundred times that many Iraqi lives. And I think its ugly that we only count and seem to care about our own. It's right in line with our general talk and stance and will to war and national exceptionalism, but it's ugly. And this skewed view of human worth is part and parcel of the mechanisms that allow us to do these things in the first place.
Bush? He's not even worth our punctuation. And voting for McCain would be like a lemming voting for a cliff.
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