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.
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...
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.
Did they bring Jerry Lewis and Ed McMahon in to go "Tympani!" "Yeah, yeah, oh, yeah!"?
Are the balloons dropping from their studio rafters?
CNN celebrates. Disgusting!
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.
Not that it matters that much, but the number is over 50,000
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.
I am sorry to say, but at this rate, it will take 57 years to reach the levels of Vietnam.
Pedestrians? Where?
Your Clinton years number doesn't add up. Off by 655.
Yes, I agree.
The Dems don't give a hoot about our troops unless they are dead, and then only because they are a political issue.
I can hear this on the ad now:
"I'm John Kerry and I approved this message"
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.
The nerve of those bastards. Somebody ought to
Sorry. 50,000+ represents all vehicular related deaths, including pedestrians.
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