I don’t know where you get your “facts,” but let me set the record straight.
As of Sept. 22, there are 4,171 military deaths with 3,377 being killed in action and 794 non-hostile.
The losses from 9/11 are as follows: 2,400 civilians, 343 firefighters and 78 other uniformed rescuers. One hundred and eighty four people died at the Pentagon, including everyone aboard the flight. Forty four people died in the flight that crashed in Shanksville, PA, in a plane probably on its mission to down the White House.
I know as an absolute fact that this war in Iraq is exactly like the war in Vietnam in that our corrupt governments at both times, (Democratic and Republican administrations), based on lies to the American people, ordered our military to serve in civil wars that couldn’t and can’t be won. Every life lost was a valiantly brave one then as it is now. Gerald Ford pulled our troops out when he realized the country was against our involvement in this civil war and we had lost enough blood and treasure in a war based on lies.
Our current corrupt administration cares so deeply for our troops that 320,000 vets have brain injuries and 152,669 have filed for disability and some of them have committed suicide either due to not having a life again back home or because the treatment they receive is so minimal. My daughter served in the Army and has had two friends die, one having committed suicide and the other just discharged from a VA hospital after being “Treated” and released for PTS arrived home with a fever and feeling sick enough to have to go to bed before joining back with his wife, and was found dead the next morning in bed by his wife who is still trying to find the real reason for his death. A lengthy toxicology report is being done.
Lastly, here are some other figures to peruse on military deaths that I found and which I give credit and thanks to: http://www.antiwar.com/casualties/
Since the war began — total 4,168, in combat 3,384.
Since mission “accomplished” — total 4,029, in combat 3,268.
Since capture of Saddam — total 3,707, in combat 3,070.
Since “Handover” — total 3,302, in combat 2,751.
Lastly, since 2004 election — total 2,722, in combat 2,489
As for your comment stating that Chris Young visualizes the people of Iraq as sewage, you need to dig up the issue with his comment because I have it and in no way did he do this.
Mrs. White, you are entitled to your opinions no matter how incomprehensible they are but, please get the facts before you comment.
Sincerely,
Janie Massey
Danielsville
only that he finished the job(that OF COURSE,
Richard Nixon started).
What do we have to show for it? Thanks to spending trillions in Iraq for over 5 years, we're on the brink of the largest economic recession since the Great Depression.
Don't worry...just keep waving those flags and chanting those slogans!
"Drill, baby, drill?" Yeah, there's some drilling going on alright. All you "patriotic" flag waving nationalists might want to turn around once in a while...you're the ones getting drilled!
Back in the days of the real United States of America you would have been tried and hung on the public square for treason.
Must have been the one with the red flag, "comrade".
If that's the "real" United States, I'm glad I never saw it.
Just in case you don't have the mental ability to figure it out, THAT RIGHT is ONE of the reasons so many United States of America's men and women GAVE THEIR LIVES to defend.
So there would never have been a need for someone to post comments like those in the first place.
But since hardly anyone in this country has the will power, intellect, and integrity to stand up against these CRIMINALS, the few who DO have little recourse other than making such comments.
HAHAHA
That is so funny.
The "real" United States!
You must do stand up comedy.
Back in MY day we had a full Bill of Rights (you have read it, haven't you?) and people were not imprisoned without recourse to legal counsel, neither were they tortured by high school dropout hillbillies, you did see the pictures from Iraq, I hope. We also got freedom of assembly, no standing inside a little box on the sidewalk to wave your little sign or else you're arrested. Treason, indeed. YOU and your ilk are the traitors to what America used to mean---the shining city on a hill, the bulwark of personal freedoms. You're a fascist if you don't believe in freedom of speech--do us Real Americans a favor and move to Communist China, you simple minded Rethuglican moron. Oh, I forgot, China owns us anyway, thanks to Bush trade policies. So you should feel right at home, just work for Wal-Mart in Beijing!
I swear, these days it seems that if you gather 100 people in a room, 95 of them are idiots. Why won't people THINK things through, ask intelligent questions, and DEMAND reasonable, truthful answers??? Are they that LAZY? They can't REALLY be that stupid, can they?