Tell the country, dude, 2000 dead with no end in sight.
All Dubya says is more sacrifice required.
The American people have a finite capacity for casualties without end. A democracy cannot fight foreign wars without the support of the citizens.
As of now, victory is undefined.
All we get from the generals and politicals is pablum.
How many American soldiers will die before it's enough.
Dude, how many died on D-Day?
Dude, why are we still in Germany?
Dude, why are we still in Japan?
Dude, how many died on 9/11?
This idea is a recipe for an endless oil war in Iraq, the Sunnis will never allow themselves to be totally economically wiped out by the Kurds and Shia making their own states.
Al-Qaeda would have a long term base in Anbar to plan the next 911 and Iraq would be a country in endless war an turmoil a hundred times worse then it is today.
Cindy is that you?
Wow this little diatribe sounds familiar... Now where have I heard these lines before...
Exactly how many terrorist attacks have occurred on American soil since 9/11?
Gee, we lost 3000 people in two hours on 9/11/01.
We have lost 2000 military heroes since the start of the latest Iraq war.
We went halfway around the world with no real support other than England to route a murderer who killed hundreds of thousands of his own and other country's people. That is hundreds of thousands of people. That's a lot bigger number than 2000. We did this in three months and then stuck around and occupied Iraq with 120,00 soldiers and lots of airforce and navy hardware in the wings.
We treated the terrorists (freedom fighters to you?) with kid gloves when we could have wiped the mat with them just so that we wouldn't seem too brutal and islamofascistic.
What other country could have taken the Taliban out of Afghanistan in a few months and installed a government with elections and what is looking like a stability they haven't seen in years?
Iraq has had elections, an electorate approved constitution, and elections in December for a real parliment. All this has been accomplished because of a president with some balls who recognizes evil for what it is. He recognizes that there must be sacrifice.
2000 brave heroes have been killed with a few thousand more wounded. I get so tired of Americans who look at these heros and say no more, bring them home, my p???y hurts. Its not worth it.
490,000 dead in WWII, 25,000 dead in Korea, 55,000 in Vietnam, 2000 dead in Iraq. That's the reality of being on the cutting edge of freedom when the rest of the world is either trying to take it away from their citizens through repression or socialism.
I know it hurts to see these brave men and women die or get maimed. Its necessary. Read "The History of Civilisation" and one realizes that man has always killed his fellow man and will continue to kill his fellow man in the future. Its not gonna stop.
As far as Iraq goes, once the elections are over in December and a parliament works, I think that you will see the American troop level drop. Its not going to drop that much because of Iran. I for one want a large American presence in the mideast.
I get tired of Americans that aren't willing to sacrifice. If there would have been some sacrifice and balls in the early '30's, Hitler wouldn't have come around. You can't treat evil with kid gloves. It has to be killed.
Too bad you don't seem to be on the same side as the military is on this issue. They aren't begging to come home. They aren't begging to end the sacrifices.
Morale is high and they have a sense of purpose.
Too bad you don't support them.
That's not many deaths in a 2-year war in which we have calmed 14 of 17 provinces and held two democratic elections.
Our military should be receiving high praise but our media is an enemy of the people and distorted the true picture of what is happening with our allies in Iraq.