"When the final history is written on Iraq, [the Iraq War] will look like just a comma" -- George W. Bush
4,000 American dead as of yesterday.
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Each one of those commas represents 100 dead American servicemen and women.
Each one of those commas represents 2,100 dead Iraqi civilians.
Each one of those commas represents 106,250 Iraqi civilians who have become refugees.
And each one of those commas represents $75 billion dollars that we will pay for this war.
That is a lot of commas. Those commas represent lives lost and families ruined by this incompetent and malignant president and the thugs who surround him. Those commas represent all of the things that could have been done to improve the lives of Americans and the lives of needy people elsewhere in the world. Schools. Housing. Infrastructure. Vaccines. Scientific research. National parks. All choices gone.
Bush thinks the war was worth it. Easy for him to say, nobody from his family has had to pay any of the costs in blood. His family will be little effected by the near-destruction of the Federal treasury. It has cost him nothing and he shows it.
To George Bush, the dead truly are commas.
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