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the forgotten american dead: rural america paying the ultimate price in iraq

Discussion in 'Anything goes' started by Herbert Anchovy, Jan 28, 2007.

  1. three_bags_full

    three_bags_full Well-Known Member

    It's not that I'm optimistic. I'm just not cynical.
     
  2. Herbert Anchovy

    Herbert Anchovy Active Member

    It's not about cynicism, man, it's realism.
     
  3. three_bags_full

    three_bags_full Well-Known Member

    And the reality is -- even if it is/was an illegal invasion, the wrong decision by the worst president ever, etc. -- that we're there, we're sending more troops, and leaving ain't on the table right now, no matter how many non-binding resolutions cross Madame Speaker's desk.
     
  4. heyabbott

    heyabbott Well-Known Member

    September 17, 1862: 23,000 American casualties at Antietam, Maryland.
    June 6, 1944: US losses: 1465 dead, 3184 wounded, 1928 missing and 26 captured.
     
  5. Herbert Anchovy

    Herbert Anchovy Active Member

    Foederal casualties at Antietam are faulty, believed to be much more on both sides.

    Just as in the Middle Eastern country shaped like a boot.

    We'll never know.
     
  6. old_tony

    old_tony Well-Known Member

    Hitting the "If-it's-difficult-we-should-run-away" jackals with facts will just get you ridicule.
     
  7. buckweaver

    buckweaver Active Member

    The reality also is: we the people do not WANT to send more troops over there. We want the men and women over there now to come home. Now.
     
  8. For a great power to still consider itself to be a great power, it has to win one of these wars at least once in a while.
     
  9. buckweaver

    buckweaver Active Member

    This is a "war" only in Cheney and Rummy's minds.

    There was no declaration. There is no war.
     
  10. three_bags_full

    three_bags_full Well-Known Member

    Well, it's not going to happen anytime soon, no matter how much we want it. And, believe me, I want it, too.

    Thus, cynicism and criticism and 10,000-man protests aren't doing any good.

    All this stuff Congress is talking now is BULLSHIT. When they've had enough and decide to grow a set of balls, they'll cut the funding. Until then, they can all have a frosty cup of shut the fuck up on me.
     
  11. Clintonian semantics?
     
  12. Lamar Mundane

    Lamar Mundane Member

    If you're not cynical, you're not a reporter. That's what I get paid for. Stenographers are not reporters. I believe nothing and challenge everything.
     
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