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Originally posted by dd74
I'm not certain the American public cares much about who is being killed by our bombs. We didn't care when Saddam gassed the Kurds, don't care that there's been close to 50,000 casualties of Iraqis since the war began, and certainly won't care if tens to hundreds of thousands of Iranians are killed. We aren't built to care about those who have governments that want to wipe us off the face of Earth. The numbers game is a political game, used to enforce a point for or against Bush's current actions.
What seems more direct in the case of Bush is a rush toward his humiliation and defeat. The Democrats are actively showing this as they align against him. I haven't heard one mention the human aspect of our efforts in Iraq. More the Dems seem myopically focused on Bush only.
Deaths of American soldiers and Iraqi citizenry are simply political plot points.
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650,000 deaths, but you're probably correct. That number of deaths is what Stalin referred to as a "statistic".