This Week: In Memoriam
By Nicole Belle Sunday Jan 04, 2009 1:30pm
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This Week with George Stephanopoulos marks the passing of South African lawmaker Helen Suzman, author Samuel Huntingdon, former Congressman Claiborne Pell, mystery writer Donald Westlake. In addition, the Pentagon has released the names of four servicemembers killed in Iraq and Afghanistan.
According to iCasualties, the total number of allied servicemembers killed in Iraq is 4,538, in Afghanistan, the number is 1,043. During this week, Iraq Body Count tallies 85 Iraqi civilians killed.
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ONLY 9100 civilians murdered last year. woo-hoo
I was under the impression that the Iraq "war" was over. People are still dying? Hmmm...must be natural causes.
Old Pres. Bush says he wants his other son Jeb to be President someday. This is on FOX (natch). He also says he plans to tamdem skyjump on his upcoming 85th birthay, because 'old guys don't have to set in a corner and drool just because they are old.' No, they just can wish further distruction of this Country by another of their degenerate sons. Can somebody just shut him and his whole criminal family up. They all belong in jail...forever.
40 years ago this year, U.S. KIA reached 500 per week.
The military action in Iraq would have been incomprehensible then.
Mucking around in a Middle East country with 150,000 or so volunteer troops for no obvious purpose?
Anyone who would have proposed such a thing would have been declared a fool.
We were (most believed) one country then. Now we accept we are a fragmented country.
How things change over time.
End of ramble.
Even one civilian killed is too much. I am ashamed of my country and always will be.
Claiborne Pell was in the Senate for 36 years, but was not a Congressman. His father Herbert C. Pell (1884-1961) was a Congressman, though.
When the US casualties in Iraq reached 2000, people started crying for Bush to bring the troops home? It was, of course, ignored.
There is so much that needs fixing in America I suspect many of us will spend the rest of our lives protesting and objecting to bad policies and actions because they apparently aren't going to get fixed. Stop-gap measures don't count except to put off the inevitable. So we'd better take pleasure and get our positive reinforcement from the things close to us, not what the government does or doesn't do to make America the kind of country we can be proud of.
I need to break out of my political junkie mode and find something more satisfying to get involved in!
All my best to the family of Senator Pell. If not for the Pell Grant, I may have had to drop out of college at one point! :)
Mention of Jazz great Freddie Hubbard
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