Please remember these 17-yo Americans who died Nov, Dec 1950, under Truman, to free S. Korea.

No one demanded that WMDs needed to be found in 1950 Korea, in order to justify freeing South Koreans from potential domination by Kim Jong-Il's father, Kim Il-sung..

Donald R Abel -- Pennsylvania 4 Nov 1950
James V Ashbaugh -- Ohio 6 Dec 1950
Donald L Bakie -- Maryland 2 Nov 1950
Ronald R Barker -- Virginia 2 Dec 1950
Robert A Jr Best Jr --Wisconsin 2 Dec 1950
Curtis L Bowman -- Virginia 24 Dec 1950
Donald W Boyd -- Pennsylvania 28 Nov 1950
Kenneth L Bridger -- Washington 30 Nov 1950
Buddy B Burris -- California 4 Dec 1950
John M Carnes -- Ohio 12 Dec 1950
Melvin H Chantre -- Massachusetts 2 Nov 1950
John B Christiana -- Pennsylvania 30 Nov 1950
Freddie E Church -- Ohio 1 Nov 1950
Arthur A Clifton -- New Mexico 11 Dec 1950
William Colletti -- Maryland 2 Dec 1950
Clifton W Conley -- Pennsylvania 4 Dec 1950
Henry D Connell -- Massachusetts 2 Nov 1950
Howard D Cook -- Kentucky 6 Nov 1950
John E Cook -- New York 29 Nov 1950
Patrick H Creagan -- Iowa 3 Dec 1950
Arthur E Crim -- Ohio 28 Nov 1950
Harold E Dale -- Michigan 13 Dec 1950
Edward H Davis -- Mississippi 2 Dec 1950
Amos Jr Douglas -- Ohio 28 Nov 1950
Richard D Espinoza -- Illinois 29 Nov 1950
Gene E Evans -- California 12 Dec 1950
William F Evans -- New Jersey 3 Dec 1950
Gerald A Farris -- California 2 Dec 1950
Eric N Jr Flackman -- California 11 Dec 1950
Irvin E Focht -- Ohio 12 Dec 1950
James L Franklin -- Virginia 6 Nov 1950
Royce C Gibson -- Kentucky 27 Nov 1950
J W Gilland -- Alabama 3 Nov 1950
Larry O Greenfield -- Iowa 14 Dec 1950
Raymond Gunderson -- Wisconsin 10 Nov 1950
Lewis S Harsher -- West Virginia 2 Dec 1950
Clarence G Hartley -- Washington 30 Nov 1950
Paul E Heald -- Florida 3 Dec 1950
Glenwood C Helman -- Pennsylvania 30 Nov 1950
Jerold C Hoffman -- Pennsylvania 15 Nov 1950
Charles L Hogan -- Texas 2 Dec 1950
Theodore H Hopke -- New York 2 Nov 1950
William C Hunt -- Kentucky 26 Nov 1950
Jack W Hutchison -- Michigan 30 Nov 1950
Harold S Jackson -- Ohio 13 Nov 1950
Herbert Jackson -- Pennsylvania 11 Nov 1950
Joseph B Joe -- Louisiana 1 Dec 1950
Eldride Johnson -- Louisiana 27 Nov 1950
John B Johnson -- North Carolina 15 Dec 1950
Wesley Johnson -- Alabama 2 Nov 1950
Robert N Jones -- California 26 Nov 1950
John J Keglovitz -- Pennsylvania 15 Dec 1950
Donald E Kelly -- California 3 Dec 1950
George E Kessler -- Virginia 28 Nov 1950
Martin A King -- Pennsylvania 2 Nov 1950
George H Lawall -- Pennsylvania 15 Dec 1950
Ray K Lilly -- West Virginia 2 Nov 1950
Kenneth W Lippert -- Ohio 2 Nov 1950
Richard A Lucas -- New Jersey 26 Nov 1950
Marshall F Lyons -- Michigan 11 Nov 1950
Donald V MacLean -- Ohio 2 Dec 1950
Henry E Jr Matton -- Wisconsin 11 Nov 1950
Donald McClellan -- Michigan 11 Dec 1950
Richard McKinney -- California 2 Dec 1950
Gerald W McLean -- Kentucky 30 Nov 1950
John D Meikle -- Virginia 15 Dec 1950
Norman E Moore -- Massachusetts 28 Nov 1950
Roland B Mullen -- Pennsylvania 21 Dec 1950
George R Jr Nedley -- Pennsylvania 29 Nov 1950
Henry R Oneal -- California 28 Nov 1950
Dick E Osborne -- Pennsylvania 2 Nov 1950
Edison F Owens -- Illinois 28 Nov 1950
Michael H Paczocha -- Wisconsin 28 Nov 1950
James R Palmer -- Ohio 2 Nov 1950
Thomas L Parker -- Georgia 27 Nov 1950
Philip O Peterson -- Minnesota 2 Dec 1950
George Jr Petty -- Pennsylvania 27 Nov 1950
Walter Pierce -- Pennsylvania 2 Nov 1950
Roger W Pleshek -- Michigan 30 Nov 1950
Alton R Register -- North Carolina 2 Dec 1950
James A Riddle -- Michigan 2 Dec 1950
Kenneth M Rinkes -- Ohio 3 Dec 1950
Joseph A Roberts -- Massachusetts 2 Nov 1950
Joseph C Robinson -- Pennsylvania 28 Nov 1950
Herman Rose -- North Carolina 3 Dec 1950
Paul E Rose -- Pennsylvania 3 Dec 1950
Joseph Serback -- West Virginia 27 Nov 1950
Anthony R Sidoti -- Connecticut 2 Nov 1950
Marvin M Sihrer -- South Dakota 27 Nov 1950
Donald M Smith -- Kentucky 28 Nov 1950
Donald R Smith -- Ohio 2 Dec 1950
William Sneed -- Michigan 3 Dec 1950
Walter A Snyder -- Ohio 6 Dec 1950
Louis Jr Sonnier -- Louisiana 28 Nov 1950
Elmo M Spiller -- Washington 2 Nov 1950
John O Strom -- Minnesota 2 Nov 1950
John L Sullivan -- Tennessee 29 Nov 1950
Earl W Taylor -- Missouri 28 Nov 1950
James W Teague -- North Carolina 28 Nov 1950
Billy E Tennison -- Texas 1 Dec 1950
Ernest L Jr Thorpe -- Pennsylvania 15 Dec 1950
Barney A Tolbert -- Alabama 2 Dec 1950
Alfredo T Trevino -- Texas 2 Dec 1950
Darold D Urbanski -- Wyoming 1 Dec 1950
Richa Van Newhouse -- Ohio 6 Dec 1950
Rex E Wagner -- Ohio 2 Nov 1950
Lawrence R Walker -- California 30 Nov 1950
Donald E Wallace -- Tennessee 28 Nov 1950
George W Walters -- Maryland 2 Nov 1950
Kenneth E Walters -- Oklahoma 6 Dec 1950
Calvin Benjamin Ward -- Maryland 3 Dec 1950
Willie Jr Watts -- South Carolina 27 Nov 1950
Berl D Weekley -- Florida 28 Nov 1950
David G Wheat -- Louisiana 11 Nov 1950
Richard W Young -- Pennsylvania 26 Nov 1950

That ain't it!

Saddam still had Pre-Gulf War CW stashed all around Iraq. It was suppose to be declared to the UN after the Gulf War but US forces discovered it after 2003!

The whole country must be chemical dump.

"Santorum said the two-month-old report was prepared by the National Ground Intelligence Center, a military intelligence agency that started looking for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq when the Iraq Survey Group stopped doing so in late 2004.

Last year the head of Iraq Survey Group, Charles Duelfer, said that insurgents in Iraq had already used old chemical weapons in their attacks.

Nevertheless, "the impression that the Iraqi Survey Group left with the American people was they didn't find anything," Hoekstra said.

"But this says: Weapons have been discovered; more weapons exist. And they state that Iraq was not a WMD-free zone, that there are continuing threats from the materials that are or may still be in Iraq," he said.

Asked just how dangerous the weapons are, Hoekstra said: "One or two of these shells, the materials inside of these, transferred outside of the country, can be very, very deadly."

The report said that the purity of the chemical agents -- and thus their potency -- depends on "many factors, including the manufacturing process, potential additives, and environmental storage conditions."

"While agents degrade over time, chemical warfare agents remain hazardous and potentially lethal," it said.

Reporters questioned the lawmakers as to why the Bush administration had not played up the report to boost their case for continued warfare in Iraq.

"The administration has been very clear that they want to look forward," Santorum said. "They felt it was not their role to go back and fight previous discussions."

Fear that Saddam Hussein might use his alleged arsenal of chemical and biological weapons was may reason US officials gave for launching the March 2003 invasion of Iraq."

http://www.breitbart.com/news/2006/06/21/060622014432.acs11f38.html

Though about 500 chemical weapons - the exact number has not been released publicly - have been found, Maples said he doesn't believe Iraq is a "WMD-free zone."

"I do believe the former regime did a very poor job of accountability of munitions, and certainly did not document the destruction of munitions," he said. "The recovery program goes on, and I do not believe we have found all the weapons."

http://www.military.com/features/0,15240,103631,00.html?ESRC=coastgnews.RSS

On average, a bad month in Iraq would have been a good month in Korea

Number of US deaths, month by month

-------Iraq War------Korean War

65	2,849
73	1,754
37	3,345
30	386
47	3,475
35	2,154
30	657
43	2,068
82	886
40	1,072
47	1,161
19	806
52	314
147	504
88	1,394
44	1,659
61	531
71	221
84	206
68	147
140	175
73	226
108	201
62	484
36	450
52	412
82	619
77	1,017
55	302
85	197
54	173
96	243
88	541
67	310
65	199
56	471
33	1,006
81	7
71	5
61	63
51	52
70	360
76	131
108	129
76	83
	30

You were unhappy with my choice of months for a comparison between US military deaths in the Iraq War and in the Korean War.

Spurred on by your dissatisfaction, I've composed a rudimentary table which compares the two "wars," month-by-month for close to 4 years.

I think it can be safely said tha, a bad month in Iraq would have been a good month in Korea

Number of US military deaths, month by month

-------Iraq War------Korean War

65	2,849
73	1,754
37	3,345
30	386
47	3,475
35	2,154
30	657
43	2,068
82	886
40	1,072
47	1,161
19	806
52	314
147	504
88	1,394
44	1,659
61	531
71	221
84	206
68	147
140	175
73	226
108	201
62	484
36	450
52	412
82	619
77	1,017
55	302
85	197
54	173
96	243
88	541
67	310
65	199
56	471
33	1,006
81	7
71	5
61	63
51	52
70	360
76	131
108	129
76	83
	30

I hope to do some calculating, to figure out running totals for each war, by month and by year.

It should be interesting. Thank you for the idea!!

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