are american lives worth more than nonamericen lives?
2007-08-14 07:11:30 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
It sickens me that Americans only care about the very troops that are commanded to invade and crackdown on residences (something not even allowed in their own country without a court order). They have regard for only the troops! The more than 3k deaths is their reason for wanting an end to the war. Even if the US didn't suffer any casualties do you think they would want to end the war? Well, they didn't care that US sanctions killed half a million Iraqi women and children. They still don't care about the numbers the Iraqi people suffer from US intervention. Accordign to Americans this is not good enough reason to end wars. And they are busy trying to find reasons to convince themselves that Iraq invasion had something to do with security.
2007-08-14 07:29:08 · answer #1 · answered by Jerry H 5 · 1⤊ 2⤋
More people or more troops? This question is pretty vague. And MullaMurtha you are so wrong. Do the research and you will see that more troops have died under Bush's watch than under Clinton's. Right now we are losing 36% more troops under Bush than we did Clinton. Now I will back up my statement because I did the research. From 1993-2000 the average total size of the military including guard and reserves was 1,630,618. During that period 938 military personnel died per year of all causes for a death rate of 0.057%. From 2001-2004 under Bush, the average total size of the military was 1,655,947. During that period 1,297 military personnel died per year of all causes for a death rate of 0.078%. The difference betwee 0.057% and 0.078% is.......36%! Wow, more troops have died under Bush's watch than under Clintons. See how much fun research and learning can be?
2007-08-14 16:00:48 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Even if you take the broadest possible sense of 'killing' - if say, you hold him responsible for every death in every conflict in which he involved America - Bush is still a piker.
Why, by that standard all the following American Presidents have 'killed' more people than Bush ('War on Terror' something under 1 million dead, even by the most extravagant estimates):
John Fitzgerald Kennedy (Veitnam, 1.3 million military dead, plus 2-5 million or more civilians)
Harry S. Truman (bombing of Hiroshima & Nagasaki, as many as 370,000 + Korean War, ~700,000 military dead, possibly millions of civilians)
Franklin Delano Roosevelt (WWII - as many as 62 million dead)
Woodrow Wilson (WWI - about 10 million military dead, almost that many 'missing', plus up to 1.5 million civilian dead just in the Armenian genocide, not to mention the Spanish Flu).
William McKinley (Spanish-American War and Philippine War - only a few thousand American casualties in each, but civilian casualties might have gone as high as 1 million in the Philippines, plus the Boxxer Rebellion - as many as another half a million killed - that's right, wars a hundred years ago that most Americans have barely heard of killed more people than the War on Terror has).
And, Abraham Lincoln (American Civil War, 620,000 military deaths, plus hundreds of thousands of civilians - disease killing more than combat).
2007-08-14 15:24:16 · answer #3 · answered by B.Kevorkian 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I agree with regerugged except for the libel part.
But to answer in the spirit of your question. I would say that Hitler (who personally never killed anyone either) probably has outdone W. But do Jews, homosexuals, and the mentally deficient really count any more than non-Americans?
2007-08-14 14:22:54 · answer #4 · answered by John J. S 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Being that President Bush has never killed anyone, I have.
2007-08-14 14:22:55 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
john Wayne? bush is just a puppet. it is the corporations who put him and others to come into the office. at least i read and answered your question! your dull question for that matter! i asked why human being is such a hypocrite, and ended with shame on us! that includes me! think about it. don't like to hear truth and/or look into a mirror?!
2007-08-14 22:06:46 · answer #6 · answered by macmanf4j 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Ted Kennedy.
2007-08-14 14:19:55 · answer #7 · answered by Mutt 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I vote FDR. For extra credit he had concentration camps for Asians.
By your logic he is as guilty as Bush.
2007-08-14 14:23:35 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Mr. Bush has not killed anyone. To put such a falsehood in writing is libelous.
2007-08-14 14:18:36 · answer #9 · answered by regerugged 7 · 1⤊ 3⤋
Hitler? Stalin? Bin Laden?
2007-08-14 14:23:40 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋