listen to Patrick
\nCoburn<\/FONT><\/STRONG><\/A>, of the London Independent, speaking from Baghdad to
\nDemocracy Now’s Amy Goodman about the significance of the U.S. death toll and the
\nintensification of the war in Iraq.<\/P>
\n“We look too much at the number of dead,” he says. “We should also look at the number of
\nwounded — 7,000. And many of these people have suffered terrible wounds, and they would have
\ndied in previous wars. People who’ve lost all their limbs, people who will never move out of
\nwheelchairs in future. …<\/P>
\n
“What’s very noticeable, and maybe hasn’t impressed the outside world, but it’s a war on two
\nfronts. American soldiers are dying at the hands of Shiite Muslims, which wasn’t true six months
\nago, as well as these continuing guerrilla attacks by Sunni Muslims.” Iraq, he says, “is now a much
\nmore potent base for militant Islamic groups than Afghanistan ever was.”<\/P>
\n
Coburn’s report is devastating about other developments, too. If American voters put Dummy
\nBoy, Bunker Boy and Rummy Boy back in office for four more years, they can’t say they weren’t
\nwarned.<\/STRONG>
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