of the 1000 dead, how many are democrats?

[westsidexview]

democratic blood is just as patriotic as anyone's.

[Carrion]

1. More importantly

How many of the US military dead are minorities. Those really don't count if you're GOP.

[JuniperLea]

2. do you remember this little ditty from the musical, Hair?

"prisoners of ******town it's a dirty little war..."

it was all about protesting the fact that black soldiers were grouped together and put into the most dangerous positions during the viet nam war. i can only hope we've come a bit further than that! anyone have some statisitics?

[JitterbugPerfume]

3. they are all

Americam children

[Beacho]

4. They may not have been democrats before they went,

But I'll bet the majority ended up that way.

natch

[lpbk2713]

5. And how many were from the lower economic spectrum.

And how many had wealthy and influential parents.

[prolesunited]

6. Why would party affiliation have anything

to do with it? I'm sure Lila Lipscomb would not have loved her son less if he was a Republican, nor would we have shared her grief less acutely.