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Originally posted by steve_cobra
There were 39 combat related killings in Iraq during the month of 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.
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interesting how you only list U.S. casualties in January. how many thousands of iraqi citizens were killed? i think that iraq death count still trumps america's murder capital. and what, for that matter, is your point? are liberals saying 35 deaths in detroit is ok?
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FDR... led us into World War II. Germany never attacked us: Japan did. From 1941-1945, 450,000 lives were lost, an average of 112,500 per year. More than 900 per month.
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i am not certain what you are trying to prove with this. if the bush administration had sold the war in iraq on huminitarian grounds, perhaps more would be willing to accept the consequences. instead, they manufactured a connection to 9/11, "evidence" (WMDs, etc.) and threat (future iraq attacks) in order to sell the american people a war we didn't buy. THIS is the chief complaint among liberals.
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John F. Kennedy... started the Vietnam conflict in 1962. Vietnam never attacked us.
Johnson... turned Vietnam into a quagmire. From 1965-1975, 58,000 lives were lost, an average of 5,800 per year.
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you say this as if the viet nam war was a good thing? can't we learn from past mistakes instead of repeating them?
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Clinton... went to war in Bosnia without UN or French consent, Bosnia never attacked us.
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my understanding of the Bosnia conflict was that our participation was as a member of a UN peace-keeping force.
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In the two years since terrorists attacked us President Bush as 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.
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really? i didn't realize that iraq or afghanistan had truly been liberated at this point. both are currently being run by puppet governments and continue to see violence on a daily basis. and hussein was not a terrorist. he was a dictator.
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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 of 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!!!!
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a) we are still facing combat situations in iraq. just because (p)resident jackass struts around on an aircraft carrier and declares "mission accomplished" does not make it so. since that laughable display, we have lost something in the neighborhood of 700 soldiers in iraq. some accomplishment
b) wrong. bush moved the weapons inspectors out of iraq. until he told them to leave, they were actively searching for weapons, which they didn't find. hussein DID NOT kick them out despite what cheney, limbaugh and drudge would like you to believe.
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The biased media hopes we are too ignorant to realize the facts.
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this is the only portion of your post that is actually true. learn the facts. then decide whether bush is doing such a "great job". he has misled the citizens of this country and has created problems for us that will take generations to repair. he MUST be removed from office.