07-02-2004, 12:06 AM
Evan Wrote:How about the thousands of Kurds Saddam butchered?
How about the missle systems Saddam was in the middle of purchasing when we invaded his ass?
How about the many known terrorists Iraq was harboring?
I guess Iraq really was just a land of peaches and kittens. Damn those republicans and their propaganda! Im going to go watch Al-Jazeera
Quite frankly dead Kurds have little to do with this war. If ethnic cleansing were such a high cause for the United States we would've intervened several times in the last 2 decades on the African continent.
But yeah lets put American personnel deaths in perspective. We've been in Iraq for over a year and we've had about 600 American deaths. As I said earlier we've had over 600 deaths in 2 American cities from homicides. It may not be a picnic out there but as military endeavors go we've suffered minimal losses. If people are so concerned about these casualties maybe they should take up the cause of battling inner city crime.
Now I'm not supporting Bush's reasons for going to war or his handling of foreign policy issues but realistically things on the ground cannot be that bad if we have over 100,000 troops in theater and we've had only 600 deaths. By comparison we had almost 50,000 deaths in Vietnam.