U.S. Military Deaths (Afghanistan),  1,562
U.S. Military Wounded (Afghanistan),  11,191

U.S. Military Deaths (Iraq),  4,466
U.S. Military Wounded (Iraq),  33,080

Excess Iraqi Deaths,  655,000

Source: http://www.michaelmoore.com/ (accessed 08.13.2011)

[…] That exchange between a six-year-old and a stuffed tiger pretty well sums up the nonsensical political gamesmanship being played out today by the five-man lineup of corporatists on the Supreme Court: Chief Justice John Roberts and Justices Samuel Alito, Anthony Kennedy, Antonin Scalia, and Clarence Thomas. They are on an unrestrained ideological tear, making up their own rules to score big points for corporate power. Reasoning?

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Look at that: we don’t just win, we win big, leaving our closest competitor, Germany, in the dust. We spend 125% of the money Germany does per person. Does it feel good, America? We are tossing bigger buckets of money into health care than anyone else.

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History and economics tell us that cutting government spending in a period of low or negative economic growth runs a severe risk of slowing growth even further, and yet they’ve made deficit reduction their primary political goal. In response to one of the greatest economic disasters in recent memory, the American Republican Party has become even more hard-line and rigid in its ideology.

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