30,000 dead Iraqis 'more or less'

[quaoar]

That's how Bush put it when he actually took a question from someone in the audience.

More or less.

Give or take.

A few thousand one way or the other. No big deal, I guess.

[Orrex]

1. Well, they're generally brown, aren't they?

And largely Muslim, for that matter.

How can the Annointed Son be expected to busy himself with such trivia?

[quaoar]

2. True

And since they aren't Christians, they're all burning in hell anyway. So why worry about them?

[Orrex]

7. Hmm? I'm sorry?

I didn't catch that. I was busy thinking about the "culture of life" again...

[Maggie_May]

3. This is how out of touch he is.

If you were the president would you not want to know what the civilian count was. These are peoples lives.

[OneBlueSky]

4. the way he casually tossed out that figure is disgusting . . .

those are real people, not just numbers, and he exhibits absolutely zero compassion regarding the loss of 30,000 human beings in his illegal and immoral war . . . and you can be sure that if he's admitting to 30,000 Iraqi deaths, the true total is much, much higher . . .

[Bumblebee]

5. He actually looked happy -- that, for once, he knew the answer

and had his numbers of the Iraqi and American casualties down. Probably took him hours to memorize them. Almost had a smirk -- see how good my recount of numbers is? Thought you would stump me with your question? Impressed?

[catmother]

6. i agree. he must have practised for days. n/t