One of the recent articles on casualties estimated that the number of US troops sent home (KIA, WIA, accidents, and both physical and mental illnesses) was 6,000 since the beginning of the war. That works out to an annual rate of close to 15,000/year. Assuming a one year tour of duty, that is a 1 in 10 chance of being killed, hurt, or sick enough to be sent home.
For a country that was no threat to us, with no WMD or links to the 9/11 killers.
In the meantime, the hotbed of the real terrorists is being re-taken by their protectors, the Taliban. And bin Laden roams somewhere, plotting his next attack while we struggle in the Iraqi quagmire.
Given that, as a leader of a foreign nation, do you want to send your troops to be led by GWB?
Time for this country to stop this experiment in neocolonialism. |
