[Peace-discuss] Re: misgivings on Iraq War: A Four Year Reflection

[Pete Rhomberg]

The ratio is much higher: currently, the Iraqi death tool is estimated 
at at least 700,000 (with over 1 million additional Iraqis displaced). 
US Death toll is a little over 3,300 (I'm sorry I don't have the exact 
figure).

Chuck Minne wrote:
> This seems like a nice idea to me. What is the death ratio? Something 
> like 100,000 to 3,000 or 100 to 3? I’m sure that Iraqi flags are hard 
> to come by, especially tiny ones, but I could imagine a display or 
> poster exhibiting 97 Iraqi flags and three US flags along with the 
> explanation that while it would be impossible for a flag to be 
> displayed for each victim of the war, this was the symbolic proportion 
> of all those that should be mourned – or something like that.
>
>
> */Pete Rhomberg <rhomberger3000 at gmail.com>/* wrote:
>
>     Something that seems to have been forgotten in this debate is one
>     of the
>     options that Martin proposed, and which I am highly in favor of,
>     namely
>     representing the Iraqi dead. While procuring over 650,000 Iraqis
>     flags
>     would be an unreasonable burden on any group or coalition, I feel
>     that
>     if an alternative to American flags is not decided on, the least
>     we can
>     do is add Iraqi flags to signify a certain number of Iraqi deaths.
>     While the loss of American servicemen and women is tragic, the
>     loss of
>     any life is also tragic, and we cannot forget the tragic death of
>     over
>     650,000 Iraqis.
>     -Pete Rhomberg
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