Questions (and no Googling for the answers):

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No Googling -- but the answers are below.

1) How many US soldiers have died in Operation Attack Iraq Because Bush II Has A Vendetta?

2) How many Iraqi civilians?

3) How many US soldiers have died in the war in Afghanistan?

4) How may Afghan civilians?

5) How many Osama bin Ladens?

6) How many angels can dance on the point of a needle?

ANSWER KEY:

1) About 4,000. (There have been 4,242 confirmed deaths among the Coalition of Nations Dumb Or Asshole Enough To Send Their People To War Based On the Bush II Administration's Word. And I naturally estimate that the vast majority of those killed were US soldiers.)

2) Between about 91,000 and 99,000.

3) 651 US soldiers killed . Forty-nine were killed in 2002. 155 were killed in 2008, more than any other year. More than in 2002, 2003 and 2004 combined.

The total losses among all invading countries: 1,077.

4) Short answer: No one knows. Which seems fine because the vast majority of the Western World doesn't want to know.

"Estimates of civilian deaths based on media reports since the invasion of Afghanistan in October 2001 range from 4,800 to 7,000 killed by US and NATO forces, with another 3,000 deaths caused by insurgent actions. As in Iraq, figures derived from media estimates must be considered an under-estimation due to the lack of reportage of many incidents and the unknown numbers of wounded who died later of their injuries.

"The figure does not include the tens of thousands of alleged 'Taliban' deaths. In the past three years, media accounts based on US and NATO body counts add up to well over 10,000 fatalities among the insurgents. On a number of occasions, it has been subsequently established that the victims were innocent Afghan civilians." (World Socialist Web Site )

5) Zero. However, the US secretly launched Operation Natural Death years ago. Therefore, the number is expected to go up at any time.

6) Only one, and only if it's a gifted dancer. Thomas Aquinas holds that angels cannot occupy the same space -- or, as he has it, "contain" the same space. ("God and Reason In the Middle Ages," Edward Grant -- see the subsection Angels and Natural Philosophy, page 255.)
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