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The Iraq Debacle Week in Review

by James Benjamin
Sun Feb 18th, 2007 at 03:21:32 AM EST

Saturday (Feb. 17): 55 Iraqis, 1 GI Killed; 108 Iraqis Wounded

Friday (Feb. 16): 26 Iraqis Killed, 7 Wounded

Thursday (Feb. 15): 132 Iraqis, 1 GI Killed; 82 Iraqis Wounded

Wednesday (Feb. 14): 135 Iraqis, 6 GIs Killed; 90 Iraqis Wounded

Tuesday (Feb. 13): 72 Iraqis Killed; 62 Iraqis, 3 GIs, 2 Britons Wounded

Monday (Feb. 12): 138 Iraqis, 3 GIs Killed; 209 Iraqis Wounded

Sunday (Feb. 11): 114 Iraqis, 2 GIs Killed; 130 Iraqis Wounded

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by James Benjamin (the_bokononist at yahoo dot com) on Sun Feb 18th, 2007 at 03:22:18 AM EST

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Just reading the numbers as always becomes almost numbing. Almost 700 people killed in one week-one week. People now dead who will not be tucking in their daughters or sons to bed at night, or mothers or fathers whose children were killed, aunts and uncles dead and gone, brothers and sisters torn apart or both dead, Grama and Grandpa buried with their daughters or sons if there is anything left of them to bury. Great Aunts and Uncles dead and gone.......are there any left to tend to the people still alive and horribly wounded-almost 700 person wounded who have laughed and cried over the years at theirs son's or daughters antics, gotten angry at their parents then forgiven them....are they now so wounded their children have to take care of them? Will they eventually die from their wounds...thousands of people in one teeny tiny short week, dead or wounded-never to be the same again, their families never to be the same again...One week of carnage and sorrow.....one week, start adding up the weeks, 365 + 365+ 365...how many lives destroyed and for what? I don't feel safer, I feel sick.

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by chocolate ink on Sun Feb 18th, 2007 at 02:23:56 PM EST

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