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Originally posted by BlingDaddy
KRL... first, I totally respect you. And a logical debate here is a rareity!
KRL, 3200 of OUR precious moms, dads, and friends were killed in one swoop in an attack on 9-11 that not only killed Americans, totalled some of the most beautifiul buildings on the planet, and left thousands of children with one or NO parents.
Okay, so we go at it alone (which isnt true... it's a multinational force) So what? I revere our fallen soldiers with the utmost respect. I am a vet (D Storm 1) and I full well knew I could get killed. I have a friend who deploys to Iraq tomorrow... we said goodbye to him on Sunday when he flew to Pendleton. He knows....... he may not come back. BUT.... he knows if for some reason he doesnt... it was for OUR freedom.
Our military are not "conscripts" they fight because they believe in the American idea of freedom. And Saddam Hussein, kept that freedom from his people, and THREATENED the US by providing an environment that was "pro-terror". Just ask the 15,000 dead kurds who were killed by their own leader.
I'll shut up now.
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I was all for taking out Saddam and liberating Iraq. Let's face it the only other significant military force came from Britian and some smaller amounts from a few other countries so it would look like it was an international force. But the death toll speaks the truth. How many Brits died?
That's my point. If it was balanced, yeh we would still have casualties but at least it wouldn't just be all our guys and with a stronger force the overall number would have been less.