Food for thought - War casualties and other stuff (Vanity)

e-mail | 28 Dec 05 | Unknown

[roaddog727]

There were 39 combat related killings in Iraq in January. In the fair city of Detroit there were 35 murders in the month of January. That's just one American city, about as deadly as the entire war-torn country of Iraq.

When some claim that President Bush shouldn't have started this war, remember the following:

a. FDR led us into World War II.

b. Germany never attacked us; Japan did. From 1941-1945, 450,000 lives were lost ... an average of 112,500 per year.

c. Truman finished that war and started one in Korea. North Korea never attacked us. From 1950-1953, 55,000 lives were lost. An average of 18,334 per year.

d. John F. Kennedy started the Vietnam conflict in 1962. Vietnam never attacked us.

e. Johnson turned Vietnam into a quagmire. From 1965-1975, 58,000 lives were lost. An average of 5,800 per year.

f. Clinton went to war in Bosnia without UN or French consent. Bosnia never attacked us. He was offered Osama bin Laden's head on a platter three times by Sudan and did nothing. Osama has attacked us on multiple occasions.

g. In the years since terrorists attacked us, President Bush has liberated two countries, crushed the Taliban, crippled al-Qaida, put nuclear inspectors in Libya, Iran, and North Korea without firing a shot, and captured a terrorist who slaughtered 300,000 of his own people.

The Democrats are complaining about how long the war is taking. But. It took less time to take Iraq than it took Janet Reno to take the Branch Davidian compound. That was a 51-day operation.

We've been looking for evidence for chemical weapons in Iraq for less time than it took Hillary Clinton to find the Rose Law Firm billing records.

It took less time for the 3rd Infantry Division and the Marines to destroy the Medina Republican Guard than it took Ted Kennedy to call the police after his Oldsmobile sank at Chappaquiddick

It took less time to take Iraq than it took to count the votes in Florida!!!!

Our Commander-In-Chief is doing a GREAT JOB! The Military morale is high!

[roaddog727]

This has likely been posted before, but it is well worth repeating to keep matters in perspective.

We are doing well in Iraq, and will continue to do so no matter what Propaganda the DIMs and MSM push.

Prez Bush Kicks a@@!

Faciendum est.

[chaosagent]

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[roaddog727]

Thanks.

Just keeping the faith and getting out the facts.

[StoneColdTaxHater]

If you want carnage, read about WWI! The battle of Verdun alone the French lost 350,000! I wonder what the RATS would say to that today.

[ichabod1]

Little do they understand that nobody intended the carnage of WWI to happen. It happened because of shortsighted governments and incompetant, doubletalking diplomats. Nor do they understand how close to that kind of carnage we stand today.

[manwiththehands]

Great article. Bookmarked.

Regarding Janet Reno and the Branch Davidians: That atrocity was an unprovoked Clinton/Reno military strike against religious US civilians (including the torching of innocent children) on our own home soil.

Say what you want about David Koresh and his cult, but consider again the level of force used for the supposed infractions and the resulting outcome.

I still think Waco is one of the darkest moments in US history and one of Clinton's worse sins.

[Dilbert56]

Germany may not have attacked us at Pearl Harbor but they declared war on us immediately thereafter. A better analogy might be that our first counterattack vs. Hitler was in North Africa, clearly not in a direct line with Berlin.

[roaddog727]

Ping

[A.A. Cunningham]

b. Germany never attacked us;

Poor students of history forget about the following.

1941

Jan 30. Germany announces that ships of any nationality bringing aid to Great Britain will be torpedoed.
May 21. Unarmed U.S. freighter Robin Moor, en route to South Africa and Mozambique, is stopped and sunk by German submarine U-69 (torpedo and gunfire) about 700 miles off the west coast of Africa. First American merchantman sunk by a U-boat in World War II. Crew given food and directions by submarine.
Sep 7 . SS Steel Seafarer bombed and sunk in Red Sea.
Oct 17. Kearney (DD-432) escorting a convoy was attacked by U-boat off the coast of Iceland with 11 killed.
Oct 19. Unarmed U.S. freighter Lehigh is torpedoed and sunk by German submarine U-126 off Freetown, Sierra Leone.
Oct 28. Oiler Salinas (AO-19), in convoy ON 28, is torpedoed by German submarine U-106 about 700 miles east of Newfoundland.
Oct 31. Reuben James (DD-245), an older destroyer on convoy duty west of Iceland, was sunk by U-boat with loss of 115 men.
Oct 31. DuPont (DD-152) is attacked by U-boat, but missed.
Dec 2 . German submarine U-43 torpedoes and sinks unarmed U.S. tanker Astral and her 37 man crew.
Dec 3 . Unarmed U.S. freighter Sagadahoc is torpedoed and sunk by German submarine U-124 in South Atlantic.

[roaddog727]

My error.

Correction then, Germany never attacked US sovereign soil.

[StoneColdTaxHater]

You must have read Wilson's War!

[ichabod1]

I didn't read it, but I've read enough about the interlocking alliances etc. that led to it. I believe the whole doggone thing wasn't anyone's fault, i.e., everybody and nobody.

WWI just makes me sad, when I think about it. With WWII there was a villian, and a mad dog country that had to be put down, noble cause and all that. But WWI just seemed to happen for no reason at all.

And then leave it to the French to put their silk-lined slipper on the German neck after the war, just because they could. THAT is what led to the next war. Too bad Hitler wasn't satisfied with France, we probably could have negotiated the frogs away without anyone being too put out by it, least of all the french.