[Peace] Re: [Peace-discuss] Re: misgivings on Iraq War: A Four Year
Reflection
Pete Rhomberg
rhomberger3000 at gmail.com
Thu Mar 22 01:26:47 CDT 2007
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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