Post by Bret Walker on Nov 19, 2003 9:50:25 GMT -5
115 American troops died during Operation Iraqi Freedom.
After the war was over and victory declared in May, the death toll continued to mount. Since May, and as of October 29, more US soldiers have died than had died during the fighting. And more are killed each day. This is victory? When will the US pull out of a war we never should have started in the first fucking place? According to Bush, we fully plan to pull out when the Iraqi government and new constitution are in place, and by our own estimates, that means we will be out by June 2004. (Which, the most optimistic follower of Bush's track record will tell you, means more like November or December of next year.) Given that estimate of time, that means that, at the rate our troops are being killed since the war was over, we will have lost a total of 302 troops in the cease-fire, or a total of 417 troops altogether.
Now, how does the US government justify those deaths to the family members - the parents, the spouses, the children - of the soldiers killed in Iraq? "Well gee, Mr. and Mrs. Smith, we're awful sorry about your son dying in Iraq. But rest assured that, even though we have found no evidence that Iraq ever posed a serious threat to the US directly, your son died to make life better for the Iraqi citizens."
Yeah, like that makes a big fucking difference. And if you ask me, with all the resistance we're encountering now, the minute the US pulls out, Iraq will be immediately thrown into a bloody civil war - and I fear that life for the Iraqi citizen will be no better after that war than it was before we got involved.
Makes me real proud to be an American, I can tell you.
And once again, I'd like to take this opportunity to personally thank our illustrious president for making the US into a warmongering laughing stock of the world. I salute you, Mr. Bush.
After the war was over and victory declared in May, the death toll continued to mount. Since May, and as of October 29, more US soldiers have died than had died during the fighting. And more are killed each day. This is victory? When will the US pull out of a war we never should have started in the first fucking place? According to Bush, we fully plan to pull out when the Iraqi government and new constitution are in place, and by our own estimates, that means we will be out by June 2004. (Which, the most optimistic follower of Bush's track record will tell you, means more like November or December of next year.) Given that estimate of time, that means that, at the rate our troops are being killed since the war was over, we will have lost a total of 302 troops in the cease-fire, or a total of 417 troops altogether.
Now, how does the US government justify those deaths to the family members - the parents, the spouses, the children - of the soldiers killed in Iraq? "Well gee, Mr. and Mrs. Smith, we're awful sorry about your son dying in Iraq. But rest assured that, even though we have found no evidence that Iraq ever posed a serious threat to the US directly, your son died to make life better for the Iraqi citizens."
Yeah, like that makes a big fucking difference. And if you ask me, with all the resistance we're encountering now, the minute the US pulls out, Iraq will be immediately thrown into a bloody civil war - and I fear that life for the Iraqi citizen will be no better after that war than it was before we got involved.
Makes me real proud to be an American, I can tell you.
And once again, I'd like to take this opportunity to personally thank our illustrious president for making the US into a warmongering laughing stock of the world. I salute you, Mr. Bush.