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To: SiouxPal who wrote (93510)	12/27/2006 8:16:12 PM
From: TigerPaw	Respond to of 361700

You may come away from it wishing Al Gore to run again though. I already have a GORE2008 bumper sticker and have sent seed money to his campaign. I really like the perspective he got by sitting out of Washington DC for a bit. TP

To: SiouxPal who wrote (93510)	12/27/2006 8:57:21 PM
From: CalculatedRisk	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 361700

This story is about the guy that runs the Iraq war dead site: icasualties.org U.S. "Joe Blow" keeps track of Iraq war dead news.yahoo.com STONE MOUNTAIN, Georgia (Reuters) - When Michael White, a self-described "Joe Blow off the block," set up a Web site to track U.S. casualties in Iraq he never imagined it would become a leading resource on the subject. Nothing in his background suggested White had anything to contribute to an understanding of the Iraq war. The 50-year-old joins the traffic every morning to get to work as a software engineer at a firm outside Atlanta. He's never been to the Middle East, has no military training and speaks no Arabic. But his "Iraq Coalition Casualty" site, which keeps a log of the dead and wounded among the military and contractors in Iraq and Afghanistan, gets a million hits a day on peak days and at least four million hits a month, White said. It attracts analysts, journalists and defense departments as well as ordinary readers with its near real-time updates, statistics, and the names of casualties. Web audience measurement firm Hitwise calls it "one of the most visited non-partisan sites aimed at U.S. politics junkies." White set up www.icasualties.org in May 2003 when the war was supposed to be winding down and says it flourished in part because of his obsessive desire to make the names, dates and places listed on the site as accurate as possible. "I wanted people to use facts as opposed to opinions to talk about the war," White said at his house in Stone Mountain, one of Georgia's main tourist attractions. "I didn't think that the mission was accomplished. I had serious doubts that the mission would run smoothly and I wanted to keep track of how and where soldiers were dying," he said. <MORE AT LINK>