9 Responses to The Seminal Watercooler: The Cost of the Iraq War

1. Jim Moss August 24th, 2009 at 7:56 pm «

   1 million Iraqis equals about 330 times the deaths on 9-11. This travesty is perhaps the most egregious blind spot in our nation.
• Jason Rosenbaum August 24th, 2009 at 8:14 pm «

  Especially seeing as Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11
2. masaccio August 24th, 2009 at 8:15 pm «

   I wonder how many Afghanistanis we’ve killed.
• Jason Rosenbaum August 25th, 2009 at 7:32 am «

  That figure is largely still being written…
3. mafr August 25th, 2009 at 5:18 am «

   This is why myself, and millions of other people demonstrated against this war before it started.

   Anyone could see that this would be the result.

   But some authority will just say “we don’t agree with this” and that’ll be the end of it.

   Onwards and upwards in Afghanistan.
4. Jim Moss August 25th, 2009 at 5:38 am «

   It’s clear that Bush saw himself as some sort of Messiah figure spreading free markets and democracy around the world – and that Cheney and others used him to accomplish their more sinister goals.

   I’m starting to think that Obama is more of a pragmatist when it comes to war. He has a strong domestic agenda to push, and he’ll do internationally whatever gains him the popularity to do what he wants to at home. He opposed Iraq during the election because he knew that it would please the left. He suppoerted and has now escalated in Afghanistan because that pleases moderates and conservatives. I hope this isn’t the case – it’s inhuman to play politics with millions of human lives – but I’m starting to wonder.
• perris August 25th, 2009 at 5:43 am «

  It’s clear that Bush saw himself as some sort of Messiah figure spreading free markets and democracy around the world – and that Cheney and others used him to accomplish their more sinister goals.

  that’s not clear to me, to me he saw himself as the faciliator to the theft of the treasure of nations, I believe no such higher goal then greed in this depraved individual
• Phoenix Woman August 25th, 2009 at 5:59 am «

  Nah, he’s not that self-aware.
5. perris August 25th, 2009 at 5:41 am «

   that’s a great stat, I wish it had the profilactic;

   We are now able to estimate the number of Iraqis who have died in the war instigated by the Bush administration. Looking at the empirical evidence of Bush’s war legacy will put his claims of victory in perspective, a war that only had nothing to do with terrorism but facilitated our enemies and made that fight almost impossilbe to win

   shut down the “he had to protect us agaisnt terrorism” meme