{"id":444,"date":"2007-08-05T09:45:41","date_gmt":"2007-08-05T13:45:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=444"},"modified":"2007-08-05T18:13:04","modified_gmt":"2007-08-05T22:13:04","slug":"count-them-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=444","title":{"rendered":"Count them in"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2007\/08\/03\/AR2007080301953.html\">This<\/a> would be true, perhaps, if you, as so many do, leave Iraqis out of your calculation:<\/p>\n<p>>More young men are killed each day on the streets of America than on the worst days of carnage and loss in Iraq. There is a war at home raging every day, filling our trauma centers with so many wounded children that it sometimes makes Baghdad seem like a quiet city in Iowa.<\/p>\n<p>Remember, the Iraqis are people too.  <\/p>\n<p>Update**<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.alertnet.org\/thenews\/newsdesk\/L05682223.htm\">Every day<\/a> in Philadelphia:<\/p>\n<p>>BAGHDAD, Aug 5 (Reuters) &#8211; Iraqi police said on Sunday they had found 60 decomposed bodies dumped in thick grass in Baquba, north of Baghdad.<\/p>\n<p>>There was no indication of how the 60 people had been killed, police said. Baquba is the capital of volatile Diyala province, where thousands of extra U.S. and Iraqi soldiers have been sent to stem growing violence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This would be true, perhaps, if you, as so many do, leave Iraqis out of your calculation: >More young men are killed each day on the streets of America than on the worst days of carnage and loss in Iraq. There is a war at home raging every day, filling our trauma centers with so &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=444\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Count them in<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-op-ed-writers","category-things-that-are-false"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=444"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}