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CNN is touting the 1,000 US death in Iraq
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Posted on 09/07/2004 1:04:07 PM PDT by Dog

CNN has a JUST IN banner up announcing the 1,000th death in Iraq.


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To: Dog
Not to minimize any of the sacrifices, but we've lost 1,000 taking out a brutal and despotic regime that was a threat to the stability of an entire, vital region of the world. The barbarians slaughtered 3,000 innocents on Sept. 11th to no purpose other than to satisfy their bloodlust. I can tell which of those is worse, but I doubt if the media can.

So we're 1/55th of the way to the total taken in the war that John Kerry brags about being in but turned around and stabbed his comrades in the back while many of them were still out in the field fighting and dying. I wonder why the media doesn't make as big a deal out of that? Oh, I forgot, it's expecting too much to think they'd be fair and objective...

41 posted on 09/07/2004 1:19:42 PM PDT by chimera
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To: Dog
If this excites the dorks at CNN that much, they would have an orgasm discussing Tarawa, Guadalcanal, Iwo Jima, Nanking...
42 posted on 09/07/2004 1:20:03 PM PDT by Publius6961 (I don't do diplomacy either)
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To: Dog

Dog, during the Korean war we lost 30,000 men in three years. Yes, it's too bad to lose one, but the difference is so significant that one must admit we're doing amazingly well.


43 posted on 09/07/2004 1:20:10 PM PDT by Lady Jag (Googolplex Star Thinker of the Seventh Galaxy of Light and Ingenuity)
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To: Dog

Did they bring Jerry Lewis and Ed McMahon in to go "Tympani!" "Yeah, yeah, oh, yeah!"?


44 posted on 09/07/2004 1:20:12 PM PDT by RichInOC (...somebody had to ask...why not me?)
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To: Dog

Are the balloons dropping from their studio rafters?


45 posted on 09/07/2004 1:22:06 PM PDT by socal_parrot (Just win baby!)
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To: Dog

CNN celebrates. Disgusting!


46 posted on 09/07/2004 1:22:12 PM PDT by finnman69 (cum puella incedit minore medio corpore sub quo manifestus globus, inflammare animos)
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To: Paloma_55

Please don't count our losses as only thosed killed in theatre. Many many have been wounded. I don't know the number off hand, but I recall something on the order of 7k. Many lives have been affected by this. Many of our brave soldiers will live on, but they will never be whole.

We should be able to appreciate their sacrifice, mourn our losses, without this turning into a political football.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not accusing you of turning this into a political football. It just puzzles me, though, how little has been said about the wounded in this war.


47 posted on 09/07/2004 1:22:33 PM PDT by nohangups
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To: pt17
I can imagine why CNN doesn't post stats on the 5,000 or so pedestrians that are killed per year doing battle with vehicles, can you?

Not that it matters that much, but the number is over 50,000

48 posted on 09/07/2004 1:22:33 PM PDT by Publius6961 (I don't do diplomacy either)
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To: Dog

For those of us who lived through the Vietnam war, at any age at the time, recall the huge toll from that...finally hitting 58,000. Do you suppose they are hoping for that number to be surpassed? They do not care, even the Russian school tragedy is beyond their focus of true empathy.


49 posted on 09/07/2004 1:22:35 PM PDT by BonnieJ
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To: Dogbert41
Too bad it isn't the 1000th decapitated journalist

My first reaction too, may the Lord forgive me.
50 posted on 09/07/2004 1:22:39 PM PDT by GodBlessRonaldReagan (Count Petofi will not be denied!)
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To: Dog

I am sorry to say, but at this rate, it will take 57 years to reach the levels of Vietnam.


51 posted on 09/07/2004 1:23:05 PM PDT by 4MoreYearsOfBushGivesEnemyHell (I need to go to the toilet to take a Kerry + Teresa)
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To: Dog
Well, at least you didn't post a link to CNN's site.
52 posted on 09/07/2004 1:23:44 PM PDT by newgeezer (Boycott CNN.com. If you don't like funding the left, do not increment their hit counter.)
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To: Publius6961
Not that it matters that much, but the number is over 50,000

Pedestrians? Where?

53 posted on 09/07/2004 1:24:41 PM PDT by newgeezer (Boycott CNN.com. If you don't like funding the left, do not increment their hit counter.)
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To: slag

Your Clinton years number doesn't add up. Off by 655.


54 posted on 09/07/2004 1:25:20 PM PDT by wordsofearnest (God Bless Zell Miller.)
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To: The Ghost of FReepers Past

Yes, I agree.


55 posted on 09/07/2004 1:25:43 PM PDT by GoLightly
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To: Shortwave

The Dems don't give a hoot about our troops unless they are dead, and then only because they are a political issue.


56 posted on 09/07/2004 1:26:21 PM PDT by Brilliant
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To: Dog
CNN kerry/edwards campaign is touting the 1,000 US death in Iraq

I can hear this on the ad now:

"I'm John Kerry and I approved this message"

57 posted on 09/07/2004 1:26:45 PM PDT by Arrowhead1952 (kerry wants to rely on 4 months in Nam, not almost 20 yrs AWOL in the Senate.)
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To: Dog

Is this magic figure more, or less, than the number of college students who committed suicide in their dorm rooms in the past year? How about the number of deaths in house fires? Or how many people died of drug overdoses? Botched abortions? (Hint: even in a successful abortion, the death rate is 50%.)

The number of US GI deaths that occurred in Viet Nam AFTER John Kerry encouraged the North Vietnamese to continue resistance is variously estimated to be from 10,000 to 15,000, deaths that would have been avoided if that NVA had NOT reversed their decision to capitulate, basing their decision on the "anti-war" protests in the US.


58 posted on 09/07/2004 1:28:02 PM PDT by alloysteel
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To: finnman69
Do they have special artwork for the event? Any contests or free trips? How about live interviews? Special Programs, such as "The 1000th Death: A Special Report"??

The nerve of those bastards. Somebody ought to

59 posted on 09/07/2004 1:29:44 PM PDT by AmericanInTokyo (Kerry Predicted in 1971 "No Bloodbath in Cambodia". TWO MILLION then died: April '75 to January '79)
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To: newgeezer
Pedestrians? Where?

Sorry. 50,000+ represents all vehicular related deaths, including pedestrians.

60 posted on 09/07/2004 1:29:57 PM PDT by Publius6961 (I don't do diplomacy either)
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