Via Shel Holtz, here’s a highly compelling use of Macromedia’s oft-maligned Flash technology: Iraq War Coalition Fatalities.

This is one area where Flash excels – telling stories visually, in this case the loss of life among the U.S. and its allies in the Iraq war. Of course, if there were reliable statistics available for the loss of Iraqi life, that animation could be a lot more horrifying.

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