Saturday, May 07, 2005
A Death a Day...
Speaks for itself. Global Security reports 51 members of the U.S. armed forces died in Iraq in April. 306 were wounded. I'm not so good at math, but this comes out to something like more than one death a day and ten or so causalities a day for the month. The good news? Causalities are down from 362 in March and 450 in February. Not all of those wounded are battle causalities, but the way I figure it, if you're in Iraq and get hurt you're a causality. Sure you could have gotten hurt while hanging out or training at a U.S. base, but you weren't. There's a difference. Meanwhile Georgie is off promoting democracy in the Baltics because you know Iraq is "mission accomplished." I mean we kicked Saddam's ass, turned the show over to a "government," got the electricity turned back on, etc.
Speaks for itself. Global Security reports 51 members of the U.S. armed forces died in Iraq in April. 306 were wounded. I'm not so good at math, but this comes out to something like more than one death a day and ten or so causalities a day for the month. The good news? Causalities are down from 362 in March and 450 in February. Not all of those wounded are battle causalities, but the way I figure it, if you're in Iraq and get hurt you're a causality. Sure you could have gotten hurt while hanging out or training at a U.S. base, but you weren't. There's a difference. Meanwhile Georgie is off promoting democracy in the Baltics because you know Iraq is "mission accomplished." I mean we kicked Saddam's ass, turned the show over to a "government," got the electricity turned back on, etc.