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3000 us soldiers dead. 30,000 wonded/handicapped. How many more acceptable before you say enough ?

2006-12-30 10:10:22 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government Politics

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I said enough a long time ago. Actually, I said don't do it before #1 died. What I'd like to know is what's different that people are just NOW saying "enough".

I think this is for the neocons more than the Israelis. I think the Israelis are just as much victims of US policy as the rest of us.

Every time Bush's approval ratings drop, I have this irrational anger toward people who USED to say he was a good guy. I keep thinking "nothing has changed, and if only a FEW of you realized how awful he has always been a LITTLE earlier, we wouldn't have been stuck with another 4 years, and we'd probably be out of this war by now."

2006-12-30 10:12:47 · answer #1 · answered by firefly 6 · 1 0

Say good-bye to the old al Qaeda and hello to a new, more dangerous version created by President George W. Bush. The recent suicide bombings by Iraqis in Amman, Jordan are ominous because they provide hard evidence (confirmed by U.S. intelligence analysis) that the war in Iraq—far from pinning terrorists down within that country’s borders, as the president alleges—is incubating combat-hardened jihadists for export to other countries. As many opponents of the Iraq war predicted beforehand, a non-Islamic nation’s invasion of another Muslim country has spawned the same radical Islamic terrorism that occurred after the Soviets invaded Afghanistan in the 1980s and Russia invaded Chechnya in the 1990s.

The former invasion ultimately led to the rise of Osama bin Laden, al Qaeda’s leader and once dominant force. After 9/11, the United States made considerable progress in eliminating al Qaeda’s safe haven and training infrastructure in Afghanistan and isolating bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri, his deputy, from their forces in the field. Yet the U.S. invasion of Iraq allowed Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, a previously independent actor who didn’t care that much about the United States, to grab the spotlight by joining al Qaeda and becoming the face of the Iraqi insurgency against the U.S. occupation. Zarqawi and his “al Qaeda in Iraq? organization make the treacherous bin Laden and Zawahiri look like choirboys. Zarqawi’s trademarks are the brutal videotaped beheadings and the wanton slaughter of Muslim innocents, as well as the foreign occupiers and their Iraqi allies.

Yet even some hawkish Democrats, such as Sen. Joe Lieberman (D-Conn.), dismiss other Democrats’ concerns about being sold a bill of goods before the war by the “massaging? of intelligence. Lieberman asserted, “Those aren’t irrelevant questions. But the more they dominate the public debate, the harder it is to sustain public support for the war.? Perhaps public support for a dishonest war that has cost many lives (both U.S. and Iraqi) and hundreds of billions of dollars (and still counting), and has made the terrorism threat worse should not be sustained. To Lieberman and his ilk, both Democratic and Republican, sustaining a small counterinsurgency on the other side of the world is more important than answering a question that goes to the core of our constitutional system of checks and balances: Did the president deceive the Congress and the country into the most solemn decision a republic can make? It seems that he did, and in doing so, revived a terrorist monster to boot.

2006-12-30 18:18:42 · answer #2 · answered by FOX NEWS WATCHER 1 · 2 1

I think, if conservatives could, they would literally siphon out cash from a soldier's veins.

2006-12-30 18:15:03 · answer #3 · answered by chunks of flesh 1 · 2 0

however many it takes. the soldiers know what they signed up for.they are our real heroes, but i bet you didnt know that since the Iraq war began, 2200-2400 soldiers would have died here in the states if we didnt invade iraq, drunk drivings, motorcycle accidents etc. god bless the usa

2006-12-30 18:15:16 · answer #4 · answered by hume_10 2 · 0 2

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