More & Longer

This could, of course, be a reference to the Testicle Festival. Unfortunately it's about the Iraq War.

We have been fighting in Iraq longer than WWII and now more of our troops have died in Iraq than in the attacks on September 11.

As the fifth anniversary of the September 11, 2001, attack on the United States approaches, another somber benchmark has just been passed.

The announcement Sunday of four more U.S. military deaths in Iraq raises the death toll to 2,974 for U.S. military service members in Iraq and in what the Bush administration calls the war on terror.

The 9/11 attack killed 2,973 people, including Americans and foreign nationals but excluding the terrorists. The 9/11 death toll was calculated by CNN.

I'm reading the book that John suggested, Bush on the Couch, and this quote from Bush in September 2003 really hit me.

Events during the past two years have set before us the clearest of divides: between those who seek order, and those who spread chaos; between those who work for peaceful change, and those who adopt the methods of gangster; between those who honor the rights of man, and those who deliberately take the lives of men and women and children without mercy or shame.

Can we talk about projecting?

Let's hope November brings about a change to put our president in a straight jacket before he bombs Iran.