Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: epicure who wrote (211570)	1/2/2007 3:41:19 PM
From: geode00	Respond to of 281500

There are many other mitigating factors as well including the vast improvement (a good thing) of military field medicine. Many who would have died as recently as the last Gulf War are surviving now. There are, however, many severely debilitated people who will suffer the rest of their lives for this war for private profit. They will cost us tax money for the rest of their lives but the toll it takes on their families is immeasurable. Are Bush and Cheney and Saudi family profits worth this suffering? Apparently the likes of Mjfdl think they are. Pathetic. On a slightly different note, the longer US troops spend in Iraq, the smarter the 'enemy' becomes. They've already vastly improved the IEDs and, if I remember correctly, they've gone from taking out unarmored Humvees to taking out much more heavily armored Strykers. This is not a good thing. It's as if we're paying tax money to run some kind of a mega training camp.