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gulliver Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-25-06 05:23 PM
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4 tablespoons
650,000 or so dead (with "slush" for woundings, etc.)
* 1.5 gallons of blood per person
* 128 oz. per gallon
* 2 tablespoons per ounce
= 249,600,000 tablespoons of blood spilled

divided by 62,000,000 Bush voters in '04.
= 4.02 tablespoons of blood per Bush voter

That would be enough for two or three coats on each hand.

But it's a lot less if you just count Americans -- only between a quarter and a half a teaspoon per Bush voter depending on how you figure in woundings and transfusions. Also, the Iraq Study Group may find a way to bring people back to life in a cost-effective way. So the accounting may change in future budgets and war prospecti.

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neoblues Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-25-06 05:33 PM
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1. The Blood Not Seen...
We don't see it, but there is blood being spilled there. More on why: "Iraq: The hidden story"...
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3519855663545752103&hl=undefined

As one little boy in the video when asked if he likes Americans... he says (something like), "Is there anyone who likes Americans???"

If someone bleeds in the street and there's no one there to see, does it leave a stain?
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