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Ok I went there, and there was no place I could find to leave a reply to the blog.
US Forces death toll from the war: 2,969.
21 away from 3,000.
Casualties to US forces: 46,880
And Iraqi Christians today prayed in fear of attacks on them for their religion.
Iraqi civilian death toll: est at 57,324
There is a price to pay for truth, justice, freedom, and so on.
It will cost us many times the amounts mentioned above if we don’t have the courage to defeat the enemy.
Dear Editors,
Can we get a cleanup in here? FPM seems to have made poopie on the floor, and some mopping up is in order.
Up until now CF was the only person to use the c-word around here, and even he’s sworn off it. Congratulations, troll: you’re in a class by yourself. Merry Christmas, troll–in spite of what a miserable nonentity you have shown yourself to be.
p-mom,
Not to contradict you, but I take the Lancet’s numbers of Iraqi dead seriously: 500,000+. I don’t believe the ‘official’ U.S. numbers for an instant. They’ve lied to us about everything else.
Oh, my. Now CF is being trolled. That doesn’t happen very often, so I guess this is a major occasion.
Well, good luck with that, troll. A thousand credit hours and all the coaching in the world wouldn’t move you one iota closer to approximating my voice or style. You are SUCH a nothing. A less than nothing, really.
If you want to engage in a cutting match, let’s have at it. Be a man, not a troll. Stand and fight.
But of course, because you’re a troll, you’re a coward who slinks away, hiding in the darkness of his parents’ basement where he’s lived since graduation, playing “Left Behind: Infinite Forces,” looking at internet porn, and masturbating his flabby penis with Cheeto-stained hands.
Am I in the ballpark, troll?
The survey in the Lancet estimated the Iraqi deaths due to the U.S. invasion to be in the 650K range with a pretty wide confidence interval. Though Bush directly disputed the results, public health type scientists attested to the accuracy of the survey method.
The survey was pretty convincing evidence to me that the Iraqis have not fared better under U.S. occupation than under Saddam.
http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140673606694919/fulltext(note: I had to register to the Lancet to get this link – I hope readers don’t have to)
During this Christmas season, I am hoping members of our Administration will be able to find a better way in Iraq.
And, oh, PoliticalMom, my math says the U.S. casualties are 31 short of 3K.
I join CF in requesting a clean up on this aisle.
Merry Christmas to all… & that is even extended to you trolls…
CF sees that his assessment of faux ‘CF’ was correct. How DO you get those Cheeto stains off your keyboard, ‘CF’? I won’t ask about your flaccid member, which in all likelihood has been stained a sickly Cheeto orange by your attempted multitasking.
The best part, troll, is that while you claim to be channelling me, liberal avenger CF, you’re actually speaking in your own cock-gobbling, quivering little voice. If your claim is that CF is the one doing the projecting, the obvious reply is that YOU’RE the one who’s trying to hide himself under someone else’s persona. If CF is the blowhard, then ‘CF’ is the wannabe blowhard.
CF is a brand name ’round these parts, son, and if you’re gonna wear the shoes, you gots to have the feet. At the moment, you ain’t measuring up.
Takes a pretty sad motherfucker to troll on Christmas. Look in the mirror, ‘CF.’ That guy is you.
CF does wonder, however, if one of the WeBlog regulars has stooped to this pathetic, self-abasing new low. He pretty much would rather not know the answer.
In testing out my link above, I see that one does have to register. Registration is free and the article is free. Try this link if you’re not inclined to go to the trouble:
http://www.zmag.org/lancet.pdf
Isn’t the break with all the kiddies home unsupervised great (Roll of eyes).
Sorry for all the problems with the earlier links. The link below is the no-fuss one to the 10-21-06 _Lancet_ article I have been meaning to link to:
http://web.mit.edu/CIS/lancet-study-101106.pdf
The above link to the lancet article is the one the authors published in 2004. The 2006 article covers a greater time frame and suggests graver consequences for the Iraqis.
The last survey above indicates as a result of the war in Iraq, 2.5% of the population has died.
By way of comparison:Assuming that the U.S. population is 300,000,000, a loss of 2.5% of our population would be like every man, woman, and child dying in the state of Virgina (the 12th most populous state in the U.S.).
I am sorry for the CF troll.
It must be a pathetically sad existence it lives. Nothing better to do on THIS day than trolling on a blog?
No kids? No family or friends? Not even one person to correspond with by phone or electronically.?
Not even the the inner call to search out the warmth of human kindness?
Truly I am sorry for you.
Feel free to troll me too if it brings a bit of light to your existence. I’ll trust the editors to clean up after you.