So we've finally hit 1000.

[RandomKoolzip]

1000 men and women dead for a lie.

1000 men and women dead to make Halliburton's shareholders richer.

1000 men and women dead for no good fucking reason.

1000 men and women dead. Let that sink in.

[kayell]

1. Damn, damn, damn

:cry:

[BamaLefty]

2. 1000 lost lives

Mission Accomplished? Give me a break. NO OSAMA, NO WMD'S... NO MISSION ACCOMPLISHED. Just another reason to support the Dem ticket on 11/2.

[joefree1]

3. Be sure to rate the Yahoo article a five!

Middle East - AP
AP
More Than 1,000 Military Deaths in Iraq

59 minutes ago

By HAMZA HENDAWI, Associated Press Writer

BAGHDAD, Iraq - U.S. military deaths in the Iraq (news - web sites) campaign passed 1,000 Tuesday, an Associated Press tally showed, as a spike in fighting with both Sunni and Shiite insurgents killed seven Americans in scattered clashes in the Baghdad area.

The count includes 998 U.S. troops and three civilian contractors killed while working for the Pentagon (news - web sites). The tally was compiled by the AP based on Pentagon records, AP reporting from Iraq, and reports from soldiers' families.

It includes deaths from hostile and non-hostile causes since President Bush (news - web sites) launched a campaign in March 2003 to topple the regime of Saddam Hussein (news - web sites). A few deaths occurred in neighboring Kuwait.
More ...
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20040907/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_040907184255

And write your papers. Don't let Bush bury this.

[RandomKoolzip]

4. Two casualities today were from Illinois.

They broke into the local news here in Chicago to tell us.

How THE FUCK can people still think Bush is a good president?!? I wish someone could give me ONE single compelling reason to support this mass murdering clown.

[Dangerman]

18. He's winning every soul in the Muslim world to Christ (/sarcasm)

[kayell]

17. Avg Rating: 2.88, 1953 votes

Absolutely appalling that even freepers would freep such a story.

[kayell]

5. The list of the brave men and women murdered by */cheney for greed

http://icasualties.org/oif/Details.aspx

[bindersen]

6. Why do you only count American lives!?!?

It makes me sick! There are HORDES of CIVILIANS who has been killed in Iraq, and thousands of freedom fighters as well! For what?!? For the Americans, that's right.

[RandomKoolzip]

8. Ask Reuters.

n/t

[daddybear]

12. NO!!!!!

for BUSH and his waremongering, drunken, oil hungry, lying regime. THAT is NOT my America!!!

[kayell]

13. If you had been around longer, you would know that we frequently count

civilian lives and weep for them also. Allow us this time of grief without your uninformed moralizing.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

7. Scorekeeping. When do get to proclaim victory?

Real people, real lives, reduced to statistics. How very American to keep score as if this was some sort of game.

Kerry promises to get the troops out in his first term...maybe.

Bush promises to stay the course.

Just so we can install "democracy" in the form of a puppet government that will facilitate Exxon's access to oil to feed our SUV's.

'cept it ain't gonna work. Eventually, the Iraqis will get their country back..when they throw us out.

[bindersen]

9. The freedom fighters

are trying the best they can. None in Iraq is happy about being occupied for no reason, and the Americans feel it every second.

[RandomKoolzip]

10. The Bush misadministration's definition of "democracy" is an alien

paradigm. It has nothing to do with every voice having equal say, or representative government. It has everything to do with exploitative corporatism, with the Iraqi people doing the heavy lifting.

[kayell]

14. Putin's quote on democracy

"In Russia, democracy is who shouts the loudest," he said. "In the U.S., it's who has the most money."

[RandomKoolzip]

15. Somewhere along the line....

...I'm thinking, oh, around 1984 or so, somehow the definitions of "democracy" and "unregulated capitalism" got confused.

[kayell]

16. Too true, way, WAY too true.

[daddybear]

11. PLUS

plus the lives of so many INNOCENTS... sooooooo many that never asked for war, never asked for help from us, never sought to do anything more than live in their country - even under a raunch like Saddam...and now they are DEAD and we are saying "they have it better now". And monkey lips says "the 1,000 troops should be honored because they were able to die to set those people free". TOTAL BS!!! If MY son had been slaughtered by Bush, I'd be in prison somewhere today... and the RNC would have had a different speaker on Thursday night. One day - one son - one daughter - hitting the wrong daddy, and BUSH will see what TERRORISM really is. All my sons are either gone or retired ... but I have grandsons and it is a worry to me if this Bozo gets elected for the first time into the oval office he bought in 2000. It should be to EVERY American as we wash our democracy in blood today for the thousandth time -- and Iraq no telling HOW MANY times! Bush makes me ashamed to be an American in 2004.

[sidestreamer]

19. How about the dead Iraqi civilians

http://www.iraqbodycount.net/bodycount.htm

More than 11,000 have been killed, in addition to the 1,000 Americans.