July 30 - The Number Jumped to 2578.

[leftyladyfrommo]

Wow. This has been just a horrible day in the Middle East.

The last number I saw for wounded was 18,777.

[IntravenousDemilo]

1. Wow, you're closing in on the 9/11 total.

Once you pass that number, do you think Bush will finally twig to the fact that invading Iraq just wasn't worth doing? He's already killed more people than bin Laden ever dreamed of killing.

[lonestarnot]

2. But McCain's kid is enlisting, so it must be coming to an end

before he ships out, or maybe they've decided they have to many kids in that family.

[leftyladyfrommo]

3. We can only hope.

There was some good news out today - the pipeline to Turkey is back up and will be running here shortly.

And more bad news on the corruption in the reconstruction projects. Why can't contractors build big projects without corruption? Seems like big projects and corruption always go hand in hand.

[lonestarnot]

4. It's the corporate personage. the bushitler way.

[leftyladyfrommo]

5. I think it goes way back before Bush and his buddies.

I live in Kansas City - remember Pendergast? This city was run by crooks for years and years.

We just don't seem to be able to control our greed very well.

[lonestarnot]

6. No don't rember Pendergast.

It has never been this bad.

[leftyladyfrommo]

9. I'm probably a lot older than you are. Before pendergast was

the mob. They virtually controlled everything goin on in a lot of the big cities.

We have had really corrupt governments for a long, long time.

I think the important thing is that we need to keep controls on this kind of stuff - controls that are actually inforced. If we don't these people just take over. We really need people like Spitzer in New York.

[bowens43]

7. Oh well.....

I'm much more concerned about the Iraqis who are dying. The US military personnel who are there , are there because they volunteered. They signed up knowing full well that they could be killed while fulfilling their obligation. The Iraqi civilians did not volunteer to become targets for the the US death machine. They are victims, the troops are not.

[MethuenProgressive]

8. Absolutely disagree

The US military personnel who are there , are there because they volunteered. They signed up knowing full well that they could be killed while fulfilling their obligation. The Iraqi civilians did not volunteer to become targets for the the US death machine. They are victims, the troops are not.

I don't think any of our troops volunteered to get stuck in the middle of a sectarian civil war in a country that never was a threat to us and had nothing to do with 9/11. Our troops, aged National Guard weekend warriors, confused young boys and girls, under-equiped, poorly trained, and ill-suited for the tasks they are ordered to do are hardly a "death machine." All casualties of the Iraq War are victims. Victims of George W. Bush and the Neo-Con's failed exploitation of bin Laden's attack on us in 2001.