The U.S. says an Iraqi life is worth $2,500....................

[ClintonTyree]

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=2027&e=4&u=/chitribts/20050313/ts_chicagotrib/uspaymentsaimedatiraqislosses

For loss of life, $2,500. For an injury, $1,500. For property loss, $500. Apparently the U.S. doesn't think Iraqis are worth that much. That's pretty cheap "collateral damage," if you ask me.

And they have to wait for hours is the sweltering heat or pouring rain to collect it. Ah........the sweet smell of freedom! Or is that the noxious smell of death and destruction?

Either way, the U.S. continues it's bush "diplomacy" program; either bomb them into oblivion if they don't agree with us, or buy everything we need to get the job done. Or both. It's the American way!

[LynnTheDem]

1. And according to the 911 pay-outs, American lives are worth $1 million ea

But that's standard America-think; Americans = God's Chosen People.

Everyone else = untermenschen.

When's the last time you saw any USSA media point out the equivalent number of 911 attacks we've done to Iraq over the past 2 years???

Yeah, exactly. NEVER.

[fasttense]

2. And Iraq never even attacked us. n/t

[LynnTheDem]

5. Half this country don't care about that. They were ready to attack FRANCE

because the French government followed the will of the vast majority of their own citizens -what is known as DEMOCRACY- and said no to bush's illegal war of aggression.

One day more Americans will awake to the plain fact that not only are we NOT #1, we're not even in the Top 10.

[Mnemosyne]

3. The way things are going..

think our gov. will be placing a value of about 2 cents on anyone here making less than $90,000 a year soon. Isn't that near what they want to allocate for social services?!

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

4. That's not true. Try $2,000,000

That's how much it's costing to kill them.

Approx. $200,000,000,000. (two hundred billion already spent for Iraq) divided by approx. 100,000 dead = $2,000,000 per corpse.

We could have paid every Iraqi, man, woman, and child, approx, $8820 for the cost of the war and occupation so far.