Burnt Offering: 3,000 Sacrifices to Greed and Folly

Chris Floyd

A few weeks ago, I was asked to write a piece about the 3,000th American military casualty in Iraq. For various reasons of scheduling, time pressures, etc., the piece never ran. But I thought I'd offer it here – even though that grim milestone is now receding in the distance as we surge toward ever-greater levels of pointless death. This is a somewhat revised version of the original, which was written on Jan. 4, because at that time the details of Bush's new "Operation Cannon Fodder" had not yet been revealed.

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