[Ranger]

This thread and the blathering idiots on it disgust me. Casualties in Iraq and Afghanistan are not traffic fatalities to be trivialized or marginalized by politicians or their lackies.

[Krodg]

This thread and the blathering idiots on it disgust me. Casualties in Iraq and Afghanistan are not traffic fatalities to be trivialized or marginalized by politicians or their lackies.

No one here has trivialized the deaths of those brave soliders. They were merely pointing out the number of soliders who died for a just cause was much lower than those who died totaly senseless deaths. The soliders that died in Iraq had just as good of chance of dying here in the US.

As for calling people blathering idiots.....I'm not sure you want to go there.

[Brad’s Gramma]

I don't think ANYONE on here is minimalizing the death of even one serviceman or woman.

The point trying to be made is we don't want a Viet Nam all over again. I, for one, WANT our troops to come back to a warm welcome...NOT like my brother had.

The media is to blame, NOT your fellow Freepers.

[Dr. Frank fan]

Casualties in Iraq and Afghanistan are not traffic fatalities to be trivialized or marginalized by politicians or their lackies.

I agree. Let me know who's trivializing or marginalizing deaths/casualties in Iraq and Afghanistan, so I can get properly mad at them.

For starters I suppose I'll nominate all the people who are trivializing the deaths by saying that they were needless and have accomplished and will accomplish absolutely nothing. What an insult to them and their families.

I will also nominate the people who trivialize these deaths by reducing them to number-bombs to throw at George Bush in the hopes of getting a (D) elected. I agree that military deaths should not be used in such trivial ways, as crass political footballs.

If you have any more examples, let me know. Best,