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achtung_circus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-31-05 07:31 PM
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So, they are now talking of thousands of dead in NO.
If the death toll exceeds that of 911 will America regain some perspective.

911 has overshadowed everything else in the AMerican psyche for the last 4 years.

Can this disater reset the clock? Wil sanity and a sense of perspective return?
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liberaliraqvet26 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-31-05 07:32 PM
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1. i doubt it...
but gas prices will
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Liberal Ohioan Donating Member (53 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-31-05 07:39 PM
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2. We can only hope
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wli Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-31-05 09:56 PM
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3. the death toll may be too grave to be openly spoken of
Edited on Wed Aug-31-05 09:56 PM by wli
Experts have estimated between 1/10 and 1/3 of those who failed to evacuate will die. This means somewhere between 30K and 100K deaths. And both were on CNN saying this, in rapid succession.
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Rex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-31-05 10:00 PM
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4. All the money wasted on Iraq.
Hell, we get $130,000,000 a day out of Iraq! Where does that go? WTF is going on?
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leftofthedial Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-31-05 10:04 PM
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5. no
we can kill brown-skinned people in some third-world country and delude ourselves into feelings of vengeance

shooting wind and water is decidedly unfulfilling

besides most of these dead are poor and African American, so they don't count for as much (in the Murkan psyche) as all those middle-class white WTC victims
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