"When the figure goes over 1,000, that can be devastating in an election."
The figure already is over 1,000, if you count the coalition allies. The figure is well BELOW 1,000 if you count only the combat deaths.
but here's the rub: It's terrorists who are doing the killing. And we are hitting them back, both in Iraq and elsewhere... every few days you hear "American bombers bombed a target in Fallijah"... we are just taking out terrorist hideouts one by one.
This 'we're dont for' hysterics simply dont wash...
we have squeezed the mahdi army down to a
The hysterics miss the big picture - 50 million people from brutal tyranny to democracy is not easy. And the big picture is that, in these particular fights, despite the loss of life - WE ARE WINNING.
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Folks, we are winning. We have won every battle, and unlike Vietnam, we had the political willpower to see it through to victory, no matter what the jackasses in the media who will not venture out of their hotels to report say. We own all the lines of communication, we own the capital, we own the ports, we control the sky, the ground and the utilities. We are fighting a mopping up operation, just as we did until 1951 in Germany. Tragic when we lose anyone, but the cost of not finishing this off is going to be far higher than the "cut and run" we did in Afghanistan when we left a power vacuuma after the soviets. I and every soldier who has ever signed the dotted line know we put a big f***ing target on our chest, no matter what job you hold. I'd rather take one in Balad than have my daughters get killed in another city attack like 9/11. We MUST keep Bush in office to see this through. Lets not talk about it Freepers, start cracking open the wallets for the Swifties and GW, or volunteering to get out your friends to vote. I in no way think Kerry has the spine to see this through and our enemies know it to the core. Oh yeah, any takers on a $5 bet that they won't hit us before election day???? I wonder what the Vegas odds are.