Two thousand US servicemen or women have been killed in Iraq since March 2003. The New York Times ran this piece yesterday on both the statistical patterns and also some of the personal stories of the dead and their familes. Just imagine this article, but five hundred times as long - and that is just for the dead troops, not included the 15,000 odd wounded.
The next big number may be when the number of troops killed tops the death toll in the World Trade Center attack - wasn't that about the 2800 mark or so?
And, in a pretty amazing piece of journalism, one of the Guardian's Iraqi reporters (surely he had to be Iraqi to blend in with the community?) spent the better part of last week with the insurgents, somewhere in the 'Sunni Triangle'. And writes of an apparent split between the religious and nationalistic insurgents, and the Al Qaida inspired nutters. Very good piece of journalism methinks...
Sometimes I wonder why the internet has such the bad reputation it does, even considering the easy access to porn thing, when television tonight has consisted of The Mole, Stupid Behaviour Caught On Tape, Twenty To One Top Aussie Songs - with aforementioned Friday On My Mind as the winner, Inside Idol, Stars Without Makeup. Of course, there is qualityish stuff on ABC or SBS, but as for the commercial networks OMG.
Hmmm, geez I wish I knew more people that would be interested in political story emails - I think they would bore the pants off my workmates, even the ones I am closest with LOL. And chain mails seem to go down a better treat than any REAL story with the friends and acquaintance email address list.
Pauly
The next big number may be when the number of troops killed tops the death toll in the World Trade Center attack - wasn't that about the 2800 mark or so?
And, in a pretty amazing piece of journalism, one of the Guardian's Iraqi reporters (surely he had to be Iraqi to blend in with the community?) spent the better part of last week with the insurgents, somewhere in the 'Sunni Triangle'. And writes of an apparent split between the religious and nationalistic insurgents, and the Al Qaida inspired nutters. Very good piece of journalism methinks...
Sometimes I wonder why the internet has such the bad reputation it does, even considering the easy access to porn thing, when television tonight has consisted of The Mole, Stupid Behaviour Caught On Tape, Twenty To One Top Aussie Songs - with aforementioned Friday On My Mind as the winner, Inside Idol, Stars Without Makeup. Of course, there is qualityish stuff on ABC or SBS, but as for the commercial networks OMG.
Hmmm, geez I wish I knew more people that would be interested in political story emails - I think they would bore the pants off my workmates, even the ones I am closest with LOL. And chain mails seem to go down a better treat than any REAL story with the friends and acquaintance email address list.
Pauly
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