How many days have we been in Iraq?
Posted by Moonage on 09 Jan 2006 | Tagged as: Fun with Numbers
I was looking for links on mining deaths, and stumbled across a guy who had this nifty little ticker of how many days we’ve been in Iraq. It looks something like this:
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Only problem is it’s fundamentally flawed. We’ve been in Iraq something like this many days:
Our troops didn’t arrive in Iraq 1027 days ago, they arrived January 17th 1991 and we’ve been shot at since. The only thing that’s changed is instead being shot at by missiles, we’re being shot at with guns and car-bombs. Instead of fighting the leader of entire country, we’re fighting with people who want the old days of the government fighting us back in place. That’s all that’s changed since 1991. Some people just choose to ignore anything pre-2001. That’s dangerous.
- Technorati Iraq
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