Meanwhile in Baghdad, another 173 Iraqis were killed today

[BushOut06]

That's more people than were killed in the Oklahoma City bombing.

Just another day in Bush's illegal war.

[MannyGoldstein]

1. What An Incredible Catastrophe

I feel awful to be an American sometimes.

[Bozita]

2. I was semi-listening to CNN and heard 198 about 20 minutes ago.

iirc.

[Erika]

3. W and the GOP don't consider brown skinned Muslims

real people. It's almost like they view American women.

[Breeze54]

4. It's actually 233.....

:(

[Bozita]

6. Seven times the number of dead at VaTech

The MSM has barely noticed.

[TomInTib]

7. And here in the USA, the equivalent of two 747s worth of passengers..

are killed by hospital miss-steps every day.

(heared it on NPR yesterday)

[TahitiNut]

5. Kudos to Jon Stewart ... he brought this up, too.

He asked his Iraqi guest how they can possibly cope with DAILY killings of the same scale or larger as the VA Tech shootings.

This is NOT a way of tivializing ANYTHING - but a way of coming to grips wiht the scale and scope of the unimaginable horror we're complicit in CREATING in this world. If we can't put our own experiences in the context of the world, we lose our very humanity!