Still counting

US officials fudging Iraq army numbers

Well, let's face it, none of this adds up and it never did. Too many innocent people dead, too many people killed, too many soldiers killed. Too many people injured. Too many people damaged. Too may people affected negatively. Still counting. Stop it. Too many explosions, too many bombs, too many bullets, too much torture or not torture...we argue semantics and discuss definitions, but we wish to be precise with numbers. Will it help? If we get an exact number , will it be good? Will Iraq get itself back on the map? How many buildings, how much culture, how much blood? Does measuring improve it? Clearly it's all up a wattle. I read that 3000 American troops had deserted in Iraq. I daresay they are somewhere and probably can't go home. 3000 homeless Americans if those sites are correct. The Netherlands has pulled out, Italy has pulled out . How many other countries have pulled out? I read that business interests there to help set up the "liberated" Iraq had pulled out because it was too dangerous. If it stopped right now what are the dangers to people and the environment? What damage will the troops take home? Still counting. How much money is this all costing ? What could that money have done? Still counting. Counting doesn't doesn't help. What will help? Do you know why we had the United Nations? So we had a group of representatives from all corners of the world to discuss these very issues and have a forum for hammering out "best practice". What have we replaced it with? What else is there? We need nations to join in a forum to stop it. Stay and fix it or leave and let them fix themselves? What is the better thing to do or is there something we haven't considered? Bombs, explosions, deaths and more blood will not fix anything for anyone. You don't improve someone's health by giving them a thorough beating.