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The Stars Don't Care About Iraqis or Afghans?

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Submitted by Jpass on Sat, 2010-01-23 17:14.

I'm reading that over 100,000 Haitians died in the recent earthquake. Last night many channels on the TV were showing "Hope for Haiti Now", a celebrity fund raiser for victims of the earthquake.

Here's an article if you're interested:
"Hope for Haiti Now"
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/35023278/ns/entertainment-celebrities

Hey celebs...what about Iraqis and Afghans? Don't these people deserve a fund raiser?

Deaths in the Iraq war.

Date Min Max
9 April 2003 996 1,174
10 August 2003 6,087 7,798
25 April 2004 8,918 10,769
12 September 2004 11,797 13,806
12 March 2005 16,231 18,510
6 December 2005 27,354 30,863
28 June 2006 38,725 43,140
2 October 2006 43,546 48,343
1 March 2007 57,482 63,421
5 August 2007 68,347 74,753
2 May 2008 83,336 90,897

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraq_Body_Count_project

"A time comes when silence is betrayal."

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neil does have this..

Submitted by Jpass on Sat, 2010-01-23 17:25.

In fairness to Neil...he does have this:
http://neilyoung.com/lwwtoday/index.html

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they wouldn't kill Americans

Submitted by Jpass on Sat, 2010-01-23 17:31.

"...they wouldn't conspire to kill 3000 Americans"

I'm sure you've run into this when talking about the 9/11 attacks. Well I always follow it by telling the person to imagine 50,000 dead bodies in a large pile. I then point out that the United States government sponsored the deaths of twice as many Iraqis.

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sorry for taking this off the front page, but...

Submitted by gretavo on Sat, 2010-01-23 19:23.

the way the front page works, it was displaying a portion of the < table > code and messing up the front page columns... if you want to reformat it without table coding I'll put it back on the front page...

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