Saturday, April 10, 2004

Toleration Obfuscation

Atrios asks “Would you tolerate thirty thousand dead Americans?, after reading a Washington Post piece titled “Tolerating Casualties, From the Top Down."

My answer, Americans tolerate thirty thousand plus dead year in and year out.

The link, just previous, will take you to the U.S. Department of Transportation Traffic Safety Facts 2000. There were 37,409 traffic fatalities recorded in the year 2000.

Atrios, and the bevy of commentors at his blog, 305 comments at 8:42 A.M., are not so concerned with the deaths of military members, as they are concerned with using the deaths of military personnel in Iraq or Afghanistan to as a rallying point to advance their political agenda. 

Posted by John Venlet on 04/10 at 04:34 AM
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