Posted on 11/07/2005 10:04:03 AM PST by gophergas
I'm getting a little tired (okay, I actually got tired a long time ago) of people making such a huge deal over the US death toll reaching the 2,000 mark. All around, we're hearing, "It's not worth the cost! It's not worth the cost!"
Well, frankly, I think freedom IS worth the cost. And I think it demeans the sacrifices of our troops to suggest otherwise.
To that end, I think it would be neat to start a campaign showing some of the benefits to the war in Iraq. I'm including a "starter" image to get things rolling...
CORRECTION: Izzat Ibrahim Al Douri hosted a Baghdad conference in January 1993.
I still think they're burried somewhere in Iraq or Syria, but it seems most 'mainstreamers' have given up on that idea sadly.
Excellent indeed!
At the present rate, I wonder how long it will be before there are 2,000 deaths in France and Europe.
"Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty."
Amazing how hypersensitive the Western world has become.
The American Left cheer the murder of 2000 American babies each day by noon!
Ask the people who died on 9-11-2001.
Great post!
Some valid resources on war casulties
http://www.timesdispatch.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=RTD%2FPage%2FRTD_SectionFront&c=Page&cid=1058750344173
Dang i pasted the wrong URL
Here nis the correct URL
http://www.va.gov/pressrel/amwars01.htm
It is really not our question of is it worth the cost. It is not our lives on the line. The soldiers, sailors, and airmen who are doing the dirty work are the ones who get to ask is it worth the cost when it comes to their lives. So far, they have voted by re-enlisting, all volunteering, and saying, "YES!", it is worth their lives.
Well, we know there are at least 2,000 Americans who think it is worth dying for.
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Ask the question to the French!
I want someone on the left to tell me WHAT is worth 2000 lives? If this had happened in Afghanistan would they all be happy?
Awesome! But you may want to correct the "soldiers" part of it. I think most of them have actually been Marines. There must be another word you can use (shorter than "servicemen") that would encompass all of the branches.
ping for later, thanks for the stats!
I guess "soldiers" might not be exactly accurate, but I figured it was close enough for this purpose. I'm hoping this meets with the approval of our military personnel.
In the eternal view, those two thousand are more alive than all those who denigrate the incredible sacrifice of those precious two thousand.
Is it worth ignoring terrorism? Is it acceptable risk to allow the terrorist to thin out the infidels?
This is eight years of ignoring the terrorism problem and treating the whole affair as a law enforcement issue.
3,460 deaths from terrorist attacks
5,911 injuries from terrorist attacks.
* 1993 February 26, Terrorist bombers strike the World Trade Center, killing six people and injuring more than 1,000 others.
* 1995 November 13, A bomb at U.S. military headquarters in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, kills five U.S. service personnel.
* 1996 June: A bomb at Khobar Towers U.S. barracks in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, kills 19 Americans and injures 500 people.
* 1998 August 7 U.S. embassy Nairobi, Kenya * 1998 August 7 U.S. embassy Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, kill 224 people and wounding 4,500
* October 12, 2000: A suicide bomber attack on the USS Cole in Yemen's Aden harbor kills 17 American sailors and wounds 39 others.
* 2001 Sept 11 World Trade Center struck by two hijacked commercial planes killing 3,000
* 2001 Sept 11 Pentagon struck by hijacked commercial plane killing 189
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/fr/675422/posts
The more they attack more they kill. More we ignore, the bolder they become.
"Saddam Hussein's official press in Iraq praised Osama Bin Laden as "an Arab and Islamic hero."[2], and later, Richard Clarke, a top Clinton administration counterterrorism official, asserted that Hussein had offered bin Laden asylum after the embassy bombings.[3].
In Afghanistan, then under the control of the Taliban, a court declared on November 20, 1998 that Osama bin Laden was "a man without a sin" in regard to the bombing.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1998_U.S._embassy_bombings
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