This is a sick enterprise, disguised as a "good war" ...it's Total bullshit...unfortunately, innocent people die.

From UN Population Division data (see: http://esa.un.org/unpp/) it can be calculated that under-5 infant deaths in Afghanistan alone total:

2.2 million. (of which 90% were avoidable!!) (Afghanistan War, 2001-2007)

Congratulations USA, oh shining beacon of death and destruction. You have keep us all safe from the 'terror' of millions of dangerous infants... how proud you must feel.

Oh, man...that's just sick...if I really think about it, I get a headache and nausea...and I did. urrrgh. Damn this country. I hope you war supporters are happy but you ought to be hung.

I was being sarcastic, I am VERY anti-war..... but the death toll is deadly serious.

Hey, I know you are, bro....I wasn't calling YOU sick...I was talkin' about the WAR being SICK, SICK, SICK!

It really blows my mind when I think about the amount of suffering the Cheney/Bush assholes have exported in the USA's name....I can't think about it for long or I cry, man....really

I guess I should be thankful I'm not just numb like most Amerrikans, neh?

Whew! I thought you wanted to hang me...ugh.

Anyway, I hate to make it even worse, but check out this clip and you will see who many lives it has cost. Add to this the maimed, the psychologically damaged, the orphaned, the widowed, the grieving....

http://clipmarks.com/clipmark/DCF4E4E3-F6C2-40D2-9491-F0685329152A/

Sorry the way i worded that comment after yours sounded like it was meant for you personally...I was actually thinking of our "friends" like Colorado Right and that buncha bozos who support the neocons, no matter what

Aww, that's okay, buddy! The written word leaves a lot room for misinterpretation and it's nothing a little friendly clarification can't sort out in a jiffy. Like now.

I'm glad to know you still are concerned with of the fate of others, papananook. Not all your American "friends" are, as you point out.

Good luck with the elections, dude. The world is watching and hoping and waiting for a better way.

Yeah, TNCBT, thanks for keepin' me on my mental toes...I get pretty emotional about the fuckin' War sometimes...but it's better than bein' a numb Sheeple, neh? No matter how I hurt, it's NUTHIN' compared to the people in Iraq and Afghanistan...I can't even imagine...

And our Fuhrer Dubya has a year to fuck things up more than he already has...scary, yes?

Oh, don't even think it! We're all still not out of the woods regarding BushCo's obsession with Iran... a year is a looong time.

but it's better than bein' a numb Sheeple, neh? No matter how I hurt, it's NUTHIN' compared to the people in Iraq and Afghanistan.

CM is my soapbox. It sure beats screaming at the TV, yelling;

"What the hell is happening to America!" every time I turn on the news.

"Why are people accepting the lies, the wars the deaths?" everytime I see images from Iraq.

"What happened to "us" being the good guys!!" when I hear of things like "Blackwater".

I clip instead.

Yeah, it's an outlet, alright...but sometimes i get MORE worked up when I clip and neglect the other work I need to do about the war, environment, etc. Busy, busy old Hippie!

I can't bear to watch the goose-stepping evening propaganda anymore, not even the wholly uninformative Lehrer Report on PBS..

If Iwas on Kauai, I probably wouldn't watch much TV at all, Kauaiguy...When I lived Big Island I was usually outside or reading. I really miss Hawaii a lot! 20 years of paradise was hard to leave. No computer then. No war, either, back then.
Now, in Alaska, winter forces me into the habit of at least Countdown w/Olberman and the Daily Show and Colbert.