Hi Hawkmoon; Re: "We lost 50,000 people over the course of 10 years Bilow. In Korea we lost 50,000 people within 2 years."
I don't get your point. They're dead no matter which year they died. So what?
Re: "It's so easy for people to default to "'dem people ain't worth a single drop of American blood""
Who are you trying to fool? You didn't drag us into Iraq to save the Iraqis, you did it in a misguided attempt to make the US safer (coward). And as far as that "ain't worth a single drop", maybe you should read the latest polls:
Poll: Support for Iraq war slipping
CNN, June 30, 2003
Only 56 percent of Americans view the current fighting as going well in Iraq, according to a new CNN/USA Today Gallup poll. That is much lower than the 70 percent in late May and the 86 percent in early May who thought the fighting was going well.
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cnn.com
Pretty amazing that support could drop that fast. Sort of like Vietnam, but speeded up.
Re: "But you have to ask yourself what price we'll pay later on if we permit Islamic militancy to pervade the Persian Gulf."
Back when Saddam was in power, there was no reason to fear Islamic militancy in Iraq. Hell, Tariq Aziz was Christian. Now that you idiots have run foreign policy, an Islamic Republic of Iraq appears more and more likely. Now kindly explain to America why the people who screwed up Iraq should be trusted to fix it.
Re: "Preferring the pound of cure over the ounce of prevention.. (or intervention, in this case)."
The problem is that you do not have a "cure". What you have is a "quagmire", as is becoming more and more obvious with each passing month.
-- Carl |
