Some things I'm thinking about this Veterans Day:
- The 3,860 American servicemen and women killed in Iraq. And the 28,451 who have been wounded. And for what? Enjoy your Enduring Freedom, Iraq. We forgot to tell you it would be paid for in blood - and more of yours than ours.
- With nearly 2 months to go, 2007 has already claimed more American lives than any other year of the war (857 and counting in 2007 compared to 849 in 2004). But things are improving. Dramatically. Really. You have to step back and squint and look out of the corner of your eye and ignore the chaos and violence and civil war to see it, but really they are.
- Veterans make up 11% of the American population.
- Veterans make up 26% of the American homeless population.
- Iraq vets are already showing up among the homeless.
- The Washington establishment is, regardless of party and political ideology, utterly corrupt and morally bankrupt to bribe poor farm kids to risk their life, health, and sanity to fight wars for the affluent and abandon them once they get home and fail to smoothly reintegrate back into society as a result of what they have seen and done.
Thanks to http://icasualties.org/oif/ and Juan Cole for stats.
- The 3,860 American servicemen and women killed in Iraq. And the 28,451 who have been wounded. And for what? Enjoy your Enduring Freedom, Iraq. We forgot to tell you it would be paid for in blood - and more of yours than ours.
- With nearly 2 months to go, 2007 has already claimed more American lives than any other year of the war (857 and counting in 2007 compared to 849 in 2004). But things are improving. Dramatically. Really. You have to step back and squint and look out of the corner of your eye and ignore the chaos and violence and civil war to see it, but really they are.
- Veterans make up 11% of the American population.
- Veterans make up 26% of the American homeless population.
- Iraq vets are already showing up among the homeless.
- The Washington establishment is, regardless of party and political ideology, utterly corrupt and morally bankrupt to bribe poor farm kids to risk their life, health, and sanity to fight wars for the affluent and abandon them once they get home and fail to smoothly reintegrate back into society as a result of what they have seen and done.
Thanks to http://icasualties.org/oif/ and Juan Cole for stats.
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