114,000 US Troops not killed today!

Tmy

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Tmy
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Im sick of the latest spin that the "liberal" media is tryingto make Bush look bad by focusing on the dead soilders. WELL ITS A BIG DEAL, people what to know about it.

Whats worse the the comparisons to say the daily murder rate in LA. Talk about apples and oranges. If 14 Police officers were killed in LA in one day, it'd be a major story. Should we exepect less if it happens in Iraq.
 
Anyone else listen to the "Capitol Steps" Halloween Show the other day where they had a skit of George Bush and Don Rumsfeld looking over a map of the world (which had almost all of the countries on it) and George W. said something like "people are making such a big fuss over the two countries we are bombing, but no one is saying anything about the vast majority of the countries that we are not bombing".

Good stuff!

:p

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I keep hearing on the news that Iraq is 'the size of California', and I think if the Feds sent in troops to quell some uprising in California
and these attacks were going on, it would be a very, very, very big deal that one state was causing all those problems.

People would be arguing why we have spent so much effort on an internal state matter. But the repubs like big government solutions for problems like that.
 
Judith said:
I keep hearing on the news that Iraq is 'the size of California', and I think if the Feds sent in troops to quell some uprising in California
and these attacks were going on, it would be a very, very, very big deal that one state was causing all those problems.

People would be arguing why we have spent so much effort on an internal state matter. But the repubs like big government solutions for problems like that.
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Fortunately the recall passed and Arnold was elected, eliminating the need to send in troops. :D
 
Several billion religious people didn't blow anything up today. Film at 11.
 
I am glad that all soldiers did not get hurt or killed today! The reason to focus on the recent casualties is singular,

did Don "the Penis" Rumsfeld ignore the advice of planners who suggested the means to reduce the number of post war casualties.

Are there reasons that they didn't call up the draft and send a lot more troops?
 
Calling up the draft would be political suicide for Bush n company. (hmmm the Democrats should be spinning this possibilty)


This reminds me of the coverage I saw this one soilders funeral. Big procession, military honors, lots of press coverage, hundreds of people packed the church to show their respects. It was obvious that the liberal media, and the entire town, blew the whole thing out of proportion in order to embarass Bush.

The Vietnam Memorial, a big black marble slap in the face of Richard Nixon. Veterens Day, and annual humilation of President Taft!!!!
 
I'd prefer to see a running tally of the terrorist scum that are dying daily. A huge raid happened yesterday, I know the bodycount just went up.
 
Richard G said:
I'd prefer to see a running tally of the terrorist scum that are dying daily. A huge raid happened yesterday, I know the bodycount just went up.
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Body counts? Well, I guess since that PR strategy worked so well in Vietnam...
 
Richard G said:
I'd prefer to see a running tally of the terrorist scum that are dying daily. A huge raid happened yesterday, I know the bodycount just went up.
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And the best news of all is that there is a fixed number of terrorists, so all Bush has to do is kill (or imprison) them to make the World safe forever. :rolleyes:
 
Richard G said:
I'd prefer to see a running tally of the terrorist scum that are dying daily. A huge raid happened yesterday, I know the bodycount just went up.
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I'd like to see a running tally of the innocent civillians that are dying daily.

Of course, the US doesnt give a sh-t about the Iraqis, which is why they dont keep any count at all.
 
Richard G said:
I'd prefer to see a running tally of the terrorist scum that are dying daily. A huge raid happened yesterday, I know the bodycount just went up.
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Oh yeah! The body count way to victory!

That methodology worked so well in Vietnam too that we have decided to dust it off for use again today.
 
despite being against the Iraq war, i find that site to be highly dubious.
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Read the description of their methodology. I think you'll agree that until now, there is no better count of the number of civilian deaths, and every death is backed up by several sources. And they are honest about their biases. People would complain too if they tried to hide them. They are independent not in the US government or the former Iraqi government.

Most importantly: they show not one, but two figures, to make sure no one can accuse them of exaggeration or playing down the number. (The 'almost 10 000' is based on the maximum of course).

They have been recording the number of civilian deaths since the beginning so they had no way to know beforehand how many the war would result, and everyone of them was reported in more than one independent news source. You can check them yourself if you want.

Until someone comes up with a better tally, I'm going to consider this one the most accurate.
 
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