Sptizer hooker took pics of the encounter

[npincus]

Original OP title: "Mosaic: 4,000 Dead". That wasn't catchy enough to attract much interest here at GD: P - how sad.

Time to cut the crap and get behind our presumptive nominee: the delegate and popular vote leader. Only a Democrat will bring our troops home... McNut sees imaginary al Qaeda training in Iran and extending the Iraq war another 100 years.





http://www.huffingtonpost.com/nico-pitney/a-mosaic-4000-americans_b_93044.html

In remembrance of the 4,000 brave men and women who sacrificed everything for us -- and the two men who would continue this great tragedy, despite the cost to our soldiers, our military, and our nation.

[DerekJ]

1. How large this mosaic have to be if you include the Iraqi dead?

:(

[npincus]

2. any idea of The Lancet's last projection?

I believe they were past 1 million some time ago.

[babylonsister]

3. 665,000+ in Oct 06:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2006/oct/11/iraq.iraq

Also, this has already been posted, but the more times, the better imo.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x3052868

[npincus]

4. thanks- I thought it might offer perspective over here.

the old coot is gaining on us- and I dare say most DUers are not getting their asses shot at in Baghdad while we quibble like kids fighting over a toy. Their way home is with a Dem in the WH.

I thought the Lancet had updated it since then. I guess I can hit "The Google".

[babylonsister]

8. You're right...

http://www.justforeignpolicy.org/iraq/iraqdeaths.html

The estimate that over a million Iraqis have died received independent confirmation from a prestigious British polling agency in September 2007. Opinion Research Business estimated that 1.2 million Iraqis have been killed violently since the US invasion.


http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/
Number Of Iraqis Slaughtered In U.S. War On Iraq "1,191,216"

[npincus]

9. it's so hard to wrap one's mind around that fact...

and the MSM reported this monrng that the past year has been the most violent so far... how the hell does that jive with the Repub meme that the surge has been a big big frickin' success and "we are winning!"....

[babylonsister]

10. It doesn't jive at all. IMO that's why we need to be done with this

primary and start seriously talking about it.

[Teaser]

6. It would be a Seurat painting

.

[BumRushDaShow]

5. Hope you put the real title back (at least in parenthesis)

That mosaic is incredible and deeply symbollic.

[npincus]

7. the post got 20 views and nearly fell off the page until I changed it.

Sad, so sad- but true. That's the environment here. Folks atracted by the promise of sordid and salacious tidbits may hopefully feel some remores about participating in self-destructive attacks on our comrades here. We are all on the same side, and ending this obscene war is our (same) objective.

[lebkuchen]

11. According to Bush and Cheney, they are all expendable

because they volunteered and the mission is "worth it."

The same goes for all those deployed now. Your lives are worth the WH mission to enrich itself.

[leftynyc]

12. Prayers for them and their families

Prayers for all the Iraqi dead and their families.