4/5 Broke the 600 mark..
\_ What's the number counting all contractors?
\_ We don't count civilians.
\_ Of course the casualty numbers look better if you omit
civilians, armed or not, but it's not really honest.
\_ Isn't there some website that counts all casualties?
I've heard that the new body armor keeps people alive,
but there are many more amputees compared to gulf war I
\_ It relies on left-biased media reports.
\_ "Bring it on!" -gwb
\_ Body armor? Why do we allow body armor? Doesn't that
make the death totals lower?
\_ ^contractors^mercenaries.
\_ Another 10,000 and we'll be near what Saddam did to his own people
every year.... We should reinstall him. He was much more
efficient at this whole killing thing than we are.
\_ No matter how many times you repeat this sort of argument, it
just doesn't hold water. Sorry.
\_ Why not? Shouldn't we minimize human suffering, mr. bleeding
heart? Or did you suddenly become a racist american
jingoistic imperialist swine who thinks american lives are
suddenly more important than iraqi lives?
\_ The war was justified on a false premise. Our leaders
misled us and probably themselves in a single-minded
quest to "get Saddam," and in the process cheapened
the sacrifice of every American soldier that dies for
that cause.
\_ Even assuming you are right... how does this invalidate
the 'minimize human suffering' bit? Your hatred for our
leaders is blinding you to what's right anyways.
\_ It's laudable to free a coutry from a violent tyrant.
We could have started with a country that has a
populace that would be more welcoming, one with a
less fractious ethnic makeup, or one that other
countries would help us out with. We did the right
thing for the wrong reasons, and under the wrong
circumstances.
\_ How many Iraqis have we killed this year? I heard
it was 10,000+. By your reckoning, we are more
efficient at killing Iraqis than SH was.
\_ Yeah, we're also way better at getting Americans killed
by Iraqis than Saddam was. How many Americans have been
killed by Iraq-sponsored terrorism when Saddam was in
power? A handful of tourists in Israel maybe? |
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