Some facts and figures taken from a
comment in a Betterhumans.com column:
Americans killed by Iraqi WMD: 0
Americans killed by 9/11 terrorists: 2,973 (1)
Funding for "War on Terror" and Iraq war and occupation for 2003/2004: $128.2 billion (2)
Americans killed by hypothetical terrorist nuke: 10,000 - 250,000 (1)
Funding for Department of Homeland Security: $50 billion / year (1)
Americans killed by diseases that could be treated as a result of stem cell and therapeutic cloning research: 1.4 million in 2002 (3, 4, 5)
Funding for Federal-level, stem cell and therapeutic cloning research: severely cut or banned (6, 7)
Nuff said.
(1)
http://www.harpers.org/ARunOnTerror.html
(2)
http://www.warresisters.org/piechart.htm
(3)
http://www.stemcellfunding.org/fasta...ews.asp?id=167
(4)
http://www.stemcellfunding.org/fasta...ews.asp?id=171
(5)
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr52/nvsr52_13.pdf
(6)
http://www.stemcellfunding.org/fasta...ews.asp?id=795
(7)
http://www.ppionline.org/ppi_ci.cfm?...contentID=3518
Sad facts, indeed
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'You're spying and betraying Switzerland to try and keep alive somebody with a hook and spinal fluid and no skull in an irreversible coma? And
I thought I was disturbed. You're making me totally reorient my idea of
disturbed, mister.'
- David Foster Wallace, "
Infinite Jest"