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Report as: spam offensive Bradley Heinz on 12/18/06 at 11am

50,000? Try well over 600,000. No, that wasn't a typo, please move your decimal.
While these figures represent deaths that have occured outside of, say, an infantryman shooting someone else, these deaths MUST be accounted for in discussions of the Iraqi war and its inherent violence.
http://tinyurl.com/qgtny
or
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/10/AR2006101001442.html
Regardless, I applaud these students bringing issues of the Iraq war to a strangely apathetic and silent Stanford community. I am personally dissatisfied with the IHUM or Internship discussions that seem to dominante our mess halls, and hopefully it's acts like this that will realign our concerns and discussions with more global issues.




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