Ask Yourself, Do You Really Care About Life If Its Just Iraqis

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090423/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_iraq_death_toll_13

AP IMPACT: Secret tally has 87,215 Iraqis dead

Combined with tallies based on hospital sources and media reports since the beginning of the war and an in-depth review of available evidence by The Associated Press, the figures show that more than 110,600 Iraqis have died in violence since the 2003 U.S.-led invasion.

The number is a minimum count of violent deaths. The official who provided the data to the AP, on condition of anonymity because of its sensitivity, estimated the actual number of deaths at 10 to 20 percent higher because of thousands who are still missing and civilians who were buried in the chaos of war without official records.

The numbers show just how traumatic the war has been for Iraq. In a nation of 29 million people, the deaths represent 0.38 percent of the population. Proportionally, that would be like the United States losing 1.2 million people to violence

The data obtained by the AP measure only violent deaths — people killed in attacks such as the shootings, bombings, mortar attacks and beheadings that have ravaged Iraq. It excluded indirect factors such as damage to infrastructure, health care and stress that caused thousands more to die.

Authoritative statistics for 2003 and 2004 do not exist. But Iraq Body Count, a private, British-based group, has tallied civilian deaths from media reports and other sources since the war's start. The AP reviewed the Iraq Body Count analysis and confirmed its conclusions by sifting the data and consulting experts. The AP also interviewed experts involved with previous studies, prominent Iraq analysts and provincial and medical officials to determine that the new tally was credible.

Obama Must Wake Up

If Obama was nothing else, he was ever the idealist, envisioning America and the world for what it could be. But now is the time for him to wake up, and face the reality of what the world is; what it will always be. it is time for him to wake up to the fact that he runs America, the single most greedy, self-centered nation on earth. He is NOT the CEO of Disney world

His latest ideological misspeak was that he wants the world together to strive for total nuclear disarmament.  Beautiful thought to be sure, spoken by an equally eloquent, charismatic orator,  which is the only reason he probably  got more than a few people in this Bi-Polar world into their manic state. But to the realists among us, we remain in our depressive minds.

America, as the realists see it, is first in many things.  Ok we already covered greed, ego and selfishness. But America also leads the world in other equally abhorrent deeds.  America was first in developing nuclear weapons. America was first in using them.  American remains the only nation to ever use nuclear weapons, and not just once either. 

So while it is indeed a wonderful idea, it is impractical and impossible.  When you have the Unites States, Russia, China and Muslim fanatics bent on world domination by any means necessary,  im afraid that nuclear weapons AND worse will be here to stay.