Tally of the fallen connects us to this war

The Seattle Times.com ^ | November 7, 2007 | Andrea Otanez

[NCDragon]

It has been a while since I visited icasualties.org, an independent, apparently reliable Web site that keeps track of the number of dead and wounded in the Iraq war.

Run by people with other day jobs, icasualties.org is cited regularly by mainstream media, as it was last month in reports U.S. military deaths were at their lowest since March 2006 (36 reported in October).

It's fascinating that one guy's interest and his home server in Georgia grew to become a reliable source of information for the likes of The New York Times and The Associated Press. But more interesting is that icasualties.org is considered a lefty endeavor.

[never4get]

“In fact, newspapers should do far more than run an occasional story or boilerplate paragraph in other stories about the number of dead in Iraq. They should run a daily tally — a stand-alone box that lists the number of wounded and dead for the day, week, month and year. The trend lines will tell the story of success or the lack thereof.”

Interesting, success in the WOT as it applies to Iraq is to be measured solely on how many people are wounded ior die. Based on that thinking I suppose we should have just given up in WWII ...We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.