>We have NOT seen the thousands of US casualties that the Left was predicting.
We haven't? At last count, over 700 dead and nearly 4,000 injured. That's 5,000 casualties -- that would be "thousands," no?
I, for one, wasn't expecting this many casualties -- I expected that we'd have an easy war (read: "major combat operations") and that we'd pull out soon after the "major combat operations" were over, and not stick around for the aftermath.
I was wrong, but I'd based my predictions on comments from U.S. officials that the aftermath of the war would be a piece of cake, plus the fact that we were sending far fewer troops than it would require to conduct the rebuilding and not looking for broad international support.
What we've got now is the worst of all worlds -- we've "broken" Iraq, and remain there without enough troops or international support to fix it. So, Iraqis continue to die, and U.S. troops continue to die.
One of my friends, who is an officer in the army, is getting shipped to Iraq in September. He just got married, and I don't want him to go off into this war which is proving to be a really bad situation. I'm pretty upset about it, and am considering joining the ranks of the protestors.
For the record, I would go to prison before going to Iraq, if drafted -- and I could be -- I'll be 25 when the Selective Service is required to be at full functionality. Of course, I could just find some gay dude to testify that I'm his boyfriend or something. Then, I wouldn't have to go. Either way, I'd get buttraped ;)
-Z |
