Associated Press figures show USA military deaths in Iraq have topped 1,000, including 998 military personnel and three Pentagon contractors.
The number includes accidental as well as combat deaths.
Will all due respect to the families, I'll ask a question of the panel:
"Is the 1000 number largely a politically symbolic one given 16,204 Americans were murdered within the borders of the USA in 2002, a single, average year for that country, more than 11,000 felled by gunfire or eleven times the number who died in Iraq? "
Is it fair to make that contrast? Is this a big deal or a symbolically big deal?
Secondly, what price does a nation of 300 million, which suffered 50,000 dead in Vietnam, pay as it pursues its geo-political goals which its duly elected government considers to be in the best interests of its citizenry?
Debate!!
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