{"id":1755,"date":"2007-01-11T15:00:49","date_gmt":"2007-01-11T19:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/wordpress\/?p=1755"},"modified":"2007-01-11T15:00:49","modified_gmt":"2007-01-11T19:00:49","slug":"if-not-now-when","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=1755","title":{"rendered":"IF NOT NOW, WHEN?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Mike Ferner, After Downing Street, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.afterdowningstreet.org\/node\/17047\">8 January 2007<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Last fall the British medical journal ?Lancet? published a study done by researchers from Johns Hopkins University estimating that the midrange number of Iraqis dead ?as a consequence of the war? was about 2.5 percent of that country?s population, or roughly 655,000 people. Over 90% of those died from violence.<\/p>\n<p>Comparable casualties in our country would mean that every person in Atlanta, Denver, Boston, Seattle, Milwaukee, Fort Worth, Baltimore, San Francisco, Dallas and Philadelphia would be dead. Every. Single. Person.<\/p>\n<p>And we are just now getting serious about cutting off money for this war?<\/p>\n<p>Besides that unimaginable death toll, every person in Vermont, Delaware, Hawaii, Idaho, Nebraska, Nevada, Kansas, Mississippi, Iowa, Oregon, South Carolina, and Colorado would be wounded. Every. Single. Person.<\/p>\n<p>Would that be the point we stopped politely asking our Congress members to please end the war, and began taking over their offices in every state in the union? [ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.afterdowningstreet.org\/node\/17047\">More<\/a> ] <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Mike Ferner, After Downing Street, 8 January 2007 Last fall the British medical journal ?Lancet? published a study done by researchers from Johns Hopkins University estimating that the midrange number of Iraqis dead ?as a consequence of the war? &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=1755\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-sj","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1755"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1755\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}