Larry Pubes Posted June 15, 2006 Share Posted June 15, 2006 officially 3 away, but.. pretty nuts when you look at the monthly breakdown here: http://icasualties.org/oif/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larry Pubes Posted June 15, 2006 Author Share Posted June 15, 2006 holy fuck, 18356 officially wounded.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lord_casek Posted June 15, 2006 Share Posted June 15, 2006 not to mention those that have died off the battlefield (in germany) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tesseract Posted June 19, 2006 Share Posted June 19, 2006 http://icasualties.org/oif/Civ.aspx Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CACashRefund Posted June 19, 2006 Share Posted June 19, 2006 what makes 2500 so important? there little to no difference from 2499 and 2501 youre just trivializing their deaths Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fermentor666 Posted June 19, 2006 Share Posted June 19, 2006 Not really. In a football game, is there a difference between the one yard line and the endzone? In physical matters, it's just another yard, but psychologically it is a whole nother ballgame. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larry Pubes Posted June 20, 2006 Author Share Posted June 20, 2006 what makes 2500 so important? there little to no difference from 2499 and 2501 youre just trivializing their deaths dude, brilliant observation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fermentor666 Posted June 20, 2006 Share Posted June 20, 2006 I think that by making note of 2500 it's just the opposite of trivial, especially in a completely unneccesary farce of a war. Otherwise, they're just numbers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lord_casek Posted June 20, 2006 Share Posted June 20, 2006 wow. these are peoples lives. wow. fuck. shit. people are dying. for nothing. Operation Iraqi Liberation was the first name of this new war. they later changed it. too blatant? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flavicon Posted June 20, 2006 Share Posted June 20, 2006 Damn, that is a big number. Can't wait till it hits 3000, that'll really show em' I've been right all along!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fermentor666 Posted June 20, 2006 Share Posted June 20, 2006 It's not about proving people wrong, it's about the facts. The Republican spin on death tolls and US casualities is having such a dangerous effect on the public's conception of free speech and information. Now it's no longer ok to list a death toll because it "trivializes the deaths" or "it's how the liberal media tries to prove the administration wrong". It's no longer allowed to show caskets, deaths, injuries, or any human element on the major networks or cable news because it's too "innappropriate" or "disturbing" for viewers. Just take a look at some of the Vietnam footage that was aired ON NATIONAL NETWORKS during the war and look at how visceral and unfiltered it was. Now all we get are puff pieces, lies, and pictures of soldiers at funerals without even showing the casket. We see American troops being interviewed and Thanksgiving dinners but we are not seeing any of the reality of warfare unless it is through alternative venues such as the internet, HBO documentaries, or print media. So yes, make a huge deal about it being 2,500 deaths because they won't allow us to see anything else. Pretty soon they will stop making that number public. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2501 Posted June 21, 2006 Share Posted June 21, 2006 dumb coincidence... measurement is all basically arbitrary, but it's a necesary abstraction to make sense of things that are too large to see in their totality. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WORDISM45 Posted June 21, 2006 Share Posted June 21, 2006 what is a dumb coincidence? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
timeago Posted June 26, 2006 Share Posted June 26, 2006 http://www.iraqbodycount.net/database/ whoa! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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