Have any of you people who rave about "2500 Americans!!!" ever met a Iraq-Vet? I have; my family has fought in this war, and if it is still going on when i turn 17 then so will i. Anyway causulties are Extremely low. My Uncle's Unit was in 7 engagements and never lost a man. Do you know how many people die of car crashes every year in this country? over 40,000. So thats hmm 3 years 120,000 , gee that sure makes 2,500 + 45,000 seem small. Now don't get me wrong: any loss of life is a tragedy, but you people need to look at these numbers in context.
2006-07-05 12:39:21 · 10 answers · asked by ben s 3 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
wow!
2006-07-05 12:43:17 · answer #1 · answered by LoLa 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I know a soldier currently doing his second tour in Iraq. He has loads of pictures of graffiti written by soldiers on tanks, large gun barrels, etc. The gist of their writing has to do with the war. For example, one pictures shows the barrel of a tank gun and the words, "why r we here?" Another states, "draft Republicans" and "Bush, send your daughters." I'm sure not every soldier feels like this, but rest assured a lot of them do.
I'm all for fighting terrorists, but is our current game plan achieving that goal? Even Iraqi citizens are getting killed fairly often. Have you noticed that dead soldiers' caskets returning to America are never televised or had pictures taken? I don't think the Administration wants Americans to see these things; that way the deaths don't seem as real. And what about all of the maimed and mutilated military (how many, I don't know), and the drastic rise in PTS in our soliders returning from Iraq? It's not just death, it's a lot more.
2006-07-05 19:58:45 · answer #2 · answered by mhami06 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You are right that the numbers are low. But they seem high to someone who does not think the army should be there at all. I'm more-or-less of that stripe, although I see that it's possible to interpret a validity to the action. The one thing that keeps me from being a heavy-duty activist is the fact that we have an all-volunteer army. They start trying to draft people, I'll be out there on the barricades again, like I was during the Vietnam war.
2006-07-05 19:45:50 · answer #3 · answered by auntb93again 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ben, I currently have two friends serving and one who returned from Afghanistan - all safely, thank God. Of the three, two of them are anti-war themselves, and the other was neutral at best when he began his deployment.
2,500 is a big deal. We liberated the people of Kosovo with 2 US military deaths.
The administration pedicted a very low casualty count. 2,500 is a lot more than 2 and is not "very low."
A decent number of people were against the war from the get-go. More are against it now. The downward trend is because the populace sees a war that is being fought with no strategy, no concept of what "victory" is, and the feeling is there is no way out of it. 2,500 deaths (plus 100,000 Iraqis) for a war whose victory conditions are unclear? That is bad.
And all we get is "stay the course". Sorry, but the course is broken, and a lot of us hate that fact that friends and families are putting their lives at risk for a war that the leaders are fighting with no coherent plan.
2006-07-05 19:53:59 · answer #4 · answered by WBrian_28 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What people are questioning is why did they have to die? For what cause? Was it all lies and truly for oil? Or at least that's what I want to know. All these questions and rarely an answer that doesn't change on a weekly basis, or you can't tell if its all just a political agenda or something.
2006-07-05 19:58:26 · answer #5 · answered by Cherokee_pride 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
... that's out of 300 million people in the nation... vs... 100,000 people in Iraq... the odds of you getting killed in a car accident are MUCH, MUCH, MUCH smaller than in Iraq... the point is... why do we need to put these people in harm's way...
it's like comparing apples to hand grenades...
I hope that everyone in your family stays safe... but I know some people that lost someone.. and their story changed when they lost their son... just saying... it's not the same when it happens to you...
2006-07-05 19:49:03 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Bravo, Kudos to you and your Uncle! This has to be one of the most intelligent questions of the day Bravo.
2006-07-05 19:46:22 · answer #7 · answered by Ethan M 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
LOOK AT THIS ONE: WE'VE LOST AS MANY LIVES IN THIS FAKE SH'IT WAR AS WE DID IN 9/11. READ UP ******
2006-07-05 19:52:09 · answer #8 · answered by vegas mofo 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Very true and thank you for protecting our Freedoms!
2006-07-05 19:42:59 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
go blow!
2006-07-05 19:49:18 · answer #10 · answered by Pie's_Guy 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋