Muscatine

Yes


as of today, 11/29/07, we have lost 3879 American lives. At least 28451 wounded.

http://icasualties.org/oif/

That is important and something not to be forgotten.


Still, while no one has the exact numbers of Iraqis killed, they certainly have paid a far more deadly price.

Documented civilian deaths from violence
77,572 ?– 84,501

http://www.iraqbodycount.org/


Some might care to read this:

How much easier it is to sacrifice others, to let others pay with their lives. The value of those lives is hardly high enough to trouble us. It is nothing our military cannot afford. Here is an example:

(snip)

We, who have lost very little, who have sacrificed very little, who have paid very little, we ?‘turn the page,?’ to use Rich?’s phrase, and we continue to speak of ?‘our?’ war, of ?‘our?’ fight against the terrorists, ?‘our?’ ideals, ?‘our?’ kindness, ?‘our?’ courage; things that we value far more than the lives of millions of others, people whose deaths do not hurt us, whose loss does not affect us, and whose sacrifice we do not see bloodying our own hands.

http://www.iraqbodycount.org/analysis/beyond/the-price-of-loss/

Brilliant

Where's the good side of any of this? We completely destroyed a country and it's people, incited a civil war between secular factions, attempted to instill our form of democracy upon a country who has never had any knowledgable concept of what democracy means, opened the floodgates allowing more terrorists to plot ways to murder and maim the citizens and soldiers, and we've destroyed the lives and livelihood of approximatley 30,000 of our own native sons and daughters.

You really are a bright one bigbrother. Much like the lighthouse found stationed on the shores of ignorance.

Staunch Liberal

Brilliant



Simply brilliant, stenchy!

I asked one simple question and you demonstrated to the world how liberals don't care when or if anything good happens in Iraq. I guess the reported thousands returning weekly to their country because they feel safe to do so means nothing.

Brilliant, indeed.

but at what cost?

Destroying and repairing a nation abroad...where does that stand on the priority list of most Americans when we can't even clean up our own front yard?

Poverty and oppression are well alive in the U.S. BB...and while you're so proud of Bush's ''victory'' in Iraq, at what cost does this come to US?

Sometimes you just need to sit back and think somebody else MIGHT be right. Almost 70% of Americans think this war was wrong, so for all the prettiness you present FOR this ridiculous war, you won't convince most of us it was a just invasion/occupancy.