The U.S. military death toll in Iraq passed the 1,000 mark while the back door draft is being challenged in court. Also, a member of a Christian group punches veterans over their support of Kerry as new Bush guard duty documents come out of the blue. And Jimmy Carter responds to Zell Miller.
Tuesday, September 07, 2004
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1,000 soldiers dead for a lie. How can anyone seriously be considering voting for Bush anymore? I'm tired of so many people around me willfully shoving their own heads up their asses.
What's ludicrous is that it takes 1000 dead to make the media run with this story. What's really different between 1000 and 999 over than it is a nice, round number. The facts are too many people died at "1" and this should have been talked about a long time ago.
While the first death was just as wrong as the thousandth (not to mention the over 10,000 Iraqi civilian deaths), what is significant is public opinion, especially with such a close presidential race approaching. Research shows that disapproval of wars increases logarithmically with the number of military casualties, so the polls reflect the 1,000th death far differently from the 999th. As cynical as this sounds, at least the new numbers could give Kerry a boost and hopefully help prevent as many deaths in Syria, Pakistan, Libya...
Oh I'm sure, I just think it is stupid.
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