3500 + US troops killed in Iraq?

Question

It's sad that 3500 or so US troops have been killed. Of course 53,000 US troops died in WW1; 291,000 died in WW2; 33,000 died in Korea; and 47,000 died in Vietnam. The world is a dangerous place. If you want to acheive anything, there are costs.

Answer 1

people need to stop complaining how many troops have died. 3500 is pretty low for 6 years. Drunk drivers kill five times that amount of people every year but nobody wants to ban alcohol.

Answer 2

Gore as POTUS in 2000 with big city vote and 8? of 50 states would have decided that 9/11 was a lawyer deal and done little or nothing. We would STILL be shot at except with expensive Chinese/North Korean missles that sometimes HIT. We would NOT be landmining all the borders as that would be effective and Al Qaeda would be forced to use the checkpoints which are OPEN for NO apparent reason into a WAR ZONE where relatives have no business attending funerals from Syria, grabbing a gun and murdering somebody. No Death from above to keep fleers in or out. Same Thing.

Answer 3

What did any of the World Wars achieve? Even if Hitler had won, it would not have lasted, thank God. Don't you realise that there are people behind all these wars manipulating when and where there will be a war, for their own gains. Conspiracy theories are not theories. they are facts, too many people have studied them, for them all to find out the exact same facts. The costs are born by the people and the booty goes to the richest men in the world, who call the shots. Check out David Icke, Jordan Maxwell, Ken Hovind,www.infowars.com, David Cooper. to name just a few. All these men come from different backgrounds, have different careers, and basically have nothing in common, except they have done their homework over years of study. And have all come up with the same facts. What we should be asking is:- who is making this world a dangerous place to live in? And why?

Answer 4

Wrong number. As of 10AM Eastern time on August 7th there have been 3,020 combat deaths in Iraq. You included those who died from accidents and illness. Got to the URL listed below and click on the link for OIF/OEF casualty update.
Since there are about 160,000 troops in Iraq, that KIA figure works out to a percentage of 0.019%.

Answer 5

Yes,the cost is very high. It is especially worse when there is no true objective for all those dead.

PS. Due to faster medical response and better medical techniques on the ground, of the 30K+ wounded soldiers in Iraq, many would have died in previous wars.

Answer 6

The thing I don't understand is how the Democratic Congress can be so stupid. They think that putting a timetable for withdrawing is the answer. Hmm... perhaps Osama will just hide out for the remaining time and then come back and terrorize more. I personally think that Osama is dead, and that all the videos we get of him were filmed years before.

Answer 7

Jbon - a true liberal to the end. He now blames medical advancements for the"demon"crats not achieving their goal of getting out of Iraq. Just how low will the commucrats in this country go? Better yet, How low will the rest of America let them drag us down?

Answer 8

Who gave Bush a mandate to sacrafice those 3,500 plus.Those brave people have died in vain.The war on terror doesn't look like being won anytime soon if ever and the world sure as hell is not a better place.

Answer 9

Agreed, no pain no gain. I do not know of any human achievement that did come at a price. It almost caused Enzo Ferrari his family in his pursuit of the perfect sports car.

Answer 10

uh correction. 50,000+ died in Viet Nam! It was either 52,000 or 56,000. I was married to a Viet Nam vet for 3 years. All I heard in 72-75.

Mrs. T. / VA