10/07/2008 06:19:02 PM EST

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Don't forget the Iraqi deaths... (none / 0)
Just Foreign Policy Iraqi Death Estimator

Over half of these million plus people who have died, due to the Illegal US invasion, are women and children.  

by cruzi on 10/07/2008 07:10:31 PM EST

and never mentioned in the MSM at all (none / 0)
Just today I was thinking how every killed and wounded soldier affects so many others--their friends and family members.  So even 50 deaths means 1,000 lives affected.  So sad.  so sad.

by desertpear on 10/08/2008 01:06:52 AM EST

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My Opinion On This..... (none / 0)
...From my post "why i wake up hating scum sucking neo-cons everyday"....

http://www.2trope.com/post/ 2008/10/What-The-US-Militar y-Pays-For-Civilian-Deaths- In-Iraq.aspx

by sfinneganus on 10/08/2008 10:53:09 AM EST

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comics (none / 0)
From the people who bring you toothpastefordinner and nataliedee comics:
http://mccaincomics.com/

by jazzchic on 10/08/2008 12:06:21 AM EST

Nice. (none / 0)
Very funny.

by Spencer on 10/08/2008 01:00:40 AM EST

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That's a good album (none / 0)
have you heard the entire thing? I thought it would suck because it was overtly political, but I was wrong.

by hazmat on 10/08/2008 03:22:01 AM EST

no, actually I haven't (none / 0)
I need to listen to more.  It takes me a while to warm up to new albums sometimes.

by desertpear on 10/08/2008 04:59:45 AM EST

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comment in NY Times thread--perfect (none / 0)
I am a Pock-i-stahn-i sitting in Pock-i-stahn right now. It so happens that Senator Obama pronounces my beloved country's name properly. You can be proud of your intellectual bankruptcy while gulping down your Coors. These are precisely the arrogant and ignorant attitudes of many Americans that are going to cost America its scientific, cultural and economic supremacy.

Shahzad
Lahore, Pakistan

by desertpear on 10/08/2008 05:00:38 AM EST

How we say it (none / 0)

Sorry, but I'm going to get all pedantic here and point out that there may be more than one correct way to pronounce a foreign place name. We don't say "Par-EE, Fronce", do we? No, for English speakers, it's "PAR-iss, France", rhymes with dance. Similarly that long skinny country in South America is properly called "CHILL-y" by Anglophones, not "CHEE-lay". For an English pronunciation of Pakistan, try this.

I bet most of you say it this way. Shahzad: Love ya but you're being a dick here.

 

by ashbul on 10/08/2008 06:49:32 AM EST

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oh well (none / 0)
I actually can't help but pronounce Chile "CHEE-lay" either.  I guess when you have heard a country pronounced a certain way, it sticks with you whether wrong or right.  I guess it sounds pretentious to some.  I get your point, but Shahzad was not being a dick--he was responding to other comments that were accusing Obama of mispronouncing Pakistan, which is not true.

by desertpear on 10/08/2008 05:08:22 PM EST

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and I do say "Packy-stan" (none / 0)

by desertpear on 10/08/2008 05:08:46 PM EST

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This is great... (none / 0)
an should be sent to the intellectually/morally bankrupt "fox and friends" as this was part of the discourse this a.m. T

by tifosies on 10/08/2008 08:06:12 AM EST

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Buyakasha (none / 0)

Relative to your post and some of the comments I'd like to recommend an excellent article written a while back by Noam Chomsky called "Good News", Iraq and Beyond.  This article provides a scintillating analysis and view point of hawkish sentiment in the Middle East and in the U.S..  Enjoy

 

http://chomsky.info/article s/20080216.htm 

by elimenez on 10/09/2008 12:03:38 AM EST

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