Comments on: Infographics Movie: Cost of the War In Iraq http://flowingdata.com/2008/07/01/infographics-movie-cost-of-the-war-in-iraq/ Strength in Numbers Wed, 23 May 2012 13:31:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Cost of the Iraq War :: The Sirens Chronicles http://flowingdata.com/2008/07/01/infographics-movie-cost-of-the-war-in-iraq/#comment-12882 Cost of the Iraq War :: The Sirens Chronicles Mon, 04 Aug 2008 01:21:08 +0000 http://flowingdata.com/?p=823#comment-12882 [...] From FlowingData.com: [...] [...] From FlowingData.com: [...]

]]> By: Karl K http://flowingdata.com/2008/07/01/infographics-movie-cost-of-the-war-in-iraq/#comment-7535 Karl K Fri, 04 Jul 2008 20:20:01 +0000 http://flowingdata.com/?p=823#comment-7535 And how about one that shows how much could be purchased on a per minute basis using, say, our tax dollars devoted to pork barrel spending...or the administrative expenses associate with the Department of Education... ...Or how about the amount of time it takes an Saddam Hussein feyadeen to shred a human body feet first into a wood chipper...or the amount of time it takes to dig a mass grave to fit 150,000 bodies....or the amount of time it takes for someone like al Musab al Zarqawi to saw off the head of a captive like Daniel Pearl... I am sorry, this sort of "information visualization" is not enlightening, rather it's purely demagogic... And how about one that shows how much could be purchased on a per minute basis using, say, our tax dollars devoted to pork barrel spending…or the administrative expenses associate with the Department of Education…

…Or how about the amount of time it takes an Saddam Hussein feyadeen to shred a human body feet first into a wood chipper…or the amount of time it takes to dig a mass grave to fit 150,000 bodies….or the amount of time it takes for someone like al Musab al Zarqawi to saw off the head of a captive like Daniel Pearl…

I am sorry, this sort of “information visualization” is not enlightening, rather it’s purely demagogic…

]]> By: Karl K http://flowingdata.com/2008/07/01/infographics-movie-cost-of-the-war-in-iraq/#comment-50835 Karl K Fri, 04 Jul 2008 20:20:00 +0000 http://flowingdata.com/?p=823#comment-50835 And how about one that shows how much could be purchased on a per minute basis using, say, our tax dollars devoted to pork barrel spending...or the administrative expenses associate with the Department of Education... ...Or how about the amount of time it takes an Saddam Hussein feyadeen to shred a human body feet first into a wood chipper...or the amount of time it takes to dig a mass grave to fit 150,000 bodies....or the amount of time it takes for someone like al Musab al Zarqawi to saw off the head of a captive like Daniel Pearl... I am sorry, this sort of "information visualization" is not enlightening, rather it's purely demagogic... And how about one that shows how much could be purchased on a per minute basis using, say, our tax dollars devoted to pork barrel spending…or the administrative expenses associate with the Department of Education…

…Or how about the amount of time it takes an Saddam Hussein feyadeen to shred a human body feet first into a wood chipper…or the amount of time it takes to dig a mass grave to fit 150,000 bodies….or the amount of time it takes for someone like al Musab al Zarqawi to saw off the head of a captive like Daniel Pearl…

I am sorry, this sort of “information visualization” is not enlightening, rather it’s purely demagogic…

]]> By: Joel http://flowingdata.com/2008/07/01/infographics-movie-cost-of-the-war-in-iraq/#comment-50834 Joel Tue, 01 Jul 2008 15:31:00 +0000 http://flowingdata.com/?p=823#comment-50834 Cool! Maybe they'll do one on the War On Poverty! Cool! Maybe they’ll do one on the War On Poverty!

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