Posted on 02/12/2007 5:19:14 AM PST by TexKat
I just realized I didn't explain what I meant about this.
I'm saying that Cindy Sheehan, like other pinkos, views her son as a victim.
Casey wasn't drafted.
Maybe Cindy and the pinkos should feel more sorry for the draftees who were sent to Korea.
Also, I have a feeling that a greater number of the troops in Korea were younger (17-18 years old) than the troops in Iraq.(I might be wrong).
In order to be consistent with their view of troops as victims, shouldn't Cindy and the pinkos feel more sorry for the youths who died in Korea?
Cami McCormick: The Big Task For U.S. Troops Is Keeping Iraqi Police Honest
While the deaths of each soldier in Iraq is tragic, it is still one of the lowest in American History, probably only the war of 1812 that we did suffer less casualties than the current war in Iraq.
Two Germans abducted in Iraq: report
BERLIN, Feb. 12 (UPI) -- Two Germans working in Iraq are missing and may have been abducted, a German newspaper said Monday.
Unknown kidnappers have threatened to kill the men, who had worked in Iraq for many months, German daily Bild said Monday in a statement, citing an article to be published Tuesday.
Germany's Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier Monday in Brussels confirmed the report, saying that the men, whose names have yet to be disclosed, have been missing since Feb. 6. On the same day, a ministry crisis group was created to get the men released.
"We hope that this will come to a good end, and of course we are doing everything that these two Germans can return safely to their families," Steinmeier said.
One of the men is working as a technician in the Iraqi foreign ministry, Bild said.
The abduction comes less than a year after two German engineers, Rene Braeunlich and Thomas Nitzschke, spent 100 days in insurgent hands before they were released after Germany reportedly paid ransoms.
Two engineers from the eastern German city of Leipzig, Braeunlich and Nitzschke were taken at gunpoint from their workplace by unidentified men on Jan. 24, 2006, in the Sunni triangle in Iraq. Employed by German engineering firm Cryotec, they had joined a work crew at an Iraqi oil plant in the industrial town of Baiji.
U.S., German and Iraqi intelligence helped to release the men, it was reported afterward. Observers now hope the same channels can be activated to free the latest abductees.
http://www.upi.com/InternationalIntelligence/view.php?StoryID=20070212-084435-7053r
A couple of my peacenik friends are from Korea. I really don't understand their beliefs after how the US saved their butts.
"The bottom line is: What should the news media be allowed to do? What privileges should it have?" said Bergman in a phone interview earlier this week.
The bottom line is
If the President is a Democrat, like Truman, the media has no rights
Libs brazenly trot out lies, pretending they are bravely defending freedom of the press from that bad, bad Republican President Bush.
Never mind, nothing to see here. Move along. Just keep singing "always look at the bright of death" and plunge ahead on the same course.
Too much influence from Pinkos. I guess they have their Cindy Sheehan newsmakers, too.
I don't get it, maybe we even agree, but I'm still unclear on your point. Okay, a lot of young Draftees died fighting the Chinees and Norks in Korea, and if you are doing a daily body count, then US Iraq totals are like a single bad day in the Korea Conflict. ...but worse was the Civil War, almost 50,000 casualties at Ghettysburg alone in 3 days. The lefties probably made the same complaints then, and question if it was worth it? Seems like they dust those complaints off and recycle them for every conflict.
WE LOST __________ OF OUR YOUNG SOLDIERS IN THIS __________ CONFLICT, AND IT'S TIME TO BRING THEM HOME. (fill in the blanks by inserting your favority war and casualty numbers).
I WISH THAT THE DEMOCRATS WOULD SNAP TO TODAY'S REALITY. THE IRAQ WAR IS NO LONGER ABOUT SADDAM or WMDs. IT IS ABOUT BEING THE FRONT LINE ON THE WOT. IF WE RETREAT, like the DEMOs are now about, THERE WILL (WILL!!!) BE REPROCUSSIONS TO US HERE AT HOME.
Democrats vote against bounties for the Union Troops.
Acts are a much better index to the aims and puposes of an individual or a party than mere professions.It is of little consequence what professions are made, unless there is evidence of sincerity and honesty.
The men who have heretofore been recognized as leaders of the Democratic party in this part of the State are making some show of supporting the Government in the prosecution of the war.
They mouth a sort of catch word, "the Union as it was and the Constitution as it is."
They pretend that it embodies their sentiments.
When hard pressed, they admit in a grudging and feeble way, that the rebellion must be put down -- that we must crush the rebels or they will in the end conquer us.--
But all this is but a bid for the votes of loyal Democrats. Although they are jubilant at our disasters and are cast down when the rebels are defeated--although their prospects brighten with our misfortunes and sink with our success-- they dare not openly oppose the war and susain the rebellion.
But they come very near it.
At the recent meeting of the Board of Supervisors, although some of them were presuaded to it with difficulty, every Democrat in the Board was induced to vote against the bounty to our soldiers. The men in Burlington who have heretofore managed and ruled the Democratic party took the matter in hand and induced every democrat on the board to vote against the bounty.
Had a majority of the Board been men such as these leaders coud manage, not a dollar would have been voted by Des Moines county.
And we verily believe if they had the control not a dollar would be voted and not a man sent to the war.
We have hertofore published the yeas and nays by which the bounty was voted.
We now ask a further consideration of the suggestive fact that the leading men of the Mahony school who now control the party organization calling itself Democratic, labored to prevent our volunteers getting their promised bounty and actually induced every Democrat to vote against it.
Well said!
I think we do agree. And I'm aiming to show the hypocrisy of the folks on the Left, who pretend to care about soldiers and war casualties, but do their best to undermine troop morale.
All they really care about it scoring points against Republican presidents.
Heck, Democrats even voted against bounties for Union soldiers in 1862.
I agree that the Civil War numbers are worse.
But I think Democrats need to see that their Democratic President Truman sent Americans to Korea, to "fight bandits" * in a "police action," and, as a result, 30,000 Americans died while he was president.
My ultra-liberal sister was shocked to hear the statistics. ( I really do think the Democrats have been successfully hiding these statistics).
*Just imagine how the press and the dems would be shredding Bush now, if he had said, in 2003, that we were going to Iraq to "fight bandits" and if his generals had said, like Mac Arthur did, that the troops would be home in 6 months (by Christmas)?
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