Reed College Mourns Dead

Reed College in Portland,OR remembers the dead in the Iraq war by placing white flags on campus to symbolize the number of Iraqi's killed in the war. Red flags symbolize the number of Americans killed.
one white flag = 6 Iraqi deaths The 3000 red flags represent the 3,055 soldiers that died.

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[RevolutionBohemia]

Yeah, but also that an American life is so much more valued than an Iraqi life in this country...or any other non-American life for that matter. There is no sense of humanity or empathy.

Everyone talks about American soldiers dying and how that's such a horrible sacrifice but rarely do Americans refer to the Iraqi death count which obviously shrinks the former in comparison.

If American soldiers were really dying FOR Iraqis, Iraqis would want them there.

[mollkatles]

@RevolutionBohemia - don't be a tool. Americans do focus on the American deaths. I was in the UK last year, guess whose dead they focussed on? Their own. This is not unique, so don't sound so astounded. There are legitimate reports of Iraqi death estimates, far more accurate than the silly indee new reports (surprised?), people are aware.

It is important you not aggravate me any more with childish uninformed comments - thanks, now do run along

[tigerwoodsisadrunk]

God loves reed college

[juliaisafilmbuff123]

Sad. :(

[Jarek4]

cool that they are doing this but the reason is stupid, WAR BAD! STOP IT NOW! so freaking stupid

[Jarek4]

highly agree'd

[philotymology]

Your spelling error suggests that you aren't a Reedie.

[jimacheson]

simple as that?

or can you go into how power and oil are bad things to die for?

is anything worth dieing for?

[ummaginati0n]

No, the point is that US Soldiers are dying for power and oil.

[jimacheson]

typical of Reedies,

someone missed the point that the US Soldiers are dieing FOR the Iraqi civilians, and it is NOT the US soldiers who killed all of the 112K Iraqis.

Reed grad, P33782 here.

I remember being told NOT to be proud that I did not rape someone today, but I should be ashamed that I did not stop a rape.