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To: Neocon who wrote (152303)	11/22/2004 3:58:32 PM
From: cnyndwllr	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

But they are not immense. Hand wringing over "every life lost" does not change the fact that our troops have not taken a big hit. Neocon, screw your "big hit" assessments. Put yourself on the line covered with your buddy's blood, imagine yourself at the door when the message comes that your child is DEAD in Iraq, start waking up with the nightmares of the Iraqi and American dead, and then talk to me about how the losses aren't "immense," and how there is no "big hit." Can't you understand that you cannot quantify such losses in a number's sense? Can't you understand that such losses suffered by our young at our direction and in our name are of such a QUALITY that they are always immense, always a "big hit" and are never capable of dismissal in terms of numbers? I don't care if it's one life lost or thousands; if we send our troops to kill and die the losses are immense and we should never attempt to justify such losses unless the mission is absolutely necessary and the the mission is very likely achievable. Otherwise it is an obscenity and we can never justify the waste to the loved ones that suffer or the soldiers that pay the price. So I hope you'll stop trying to argue that side of the equation as justifying the adventure in Iraq. It's either worth doing with a lot more lives lost or it's not worth doing with one life lost. Because whenever we send our young to war the losses are too huge to quantify. Ed