Stacey Penney wrote:
Bruce Roberts <roberts@rogers.com> wrote:
Recently there has been a big flap re the "Mission Accomplished" banner
displayed above the flight deck on the USS carrier Abraham Lincoln on
last May 31 when President Bush in a speech to the navy men and women
assembled said that the end of major conflict was over in Iraq.
That's right. It's all going back to normal in Iraq.
No one said that, you idiot. Iraq was a hell hole before this war and it
still is.
In fact,
many Americans are now choosing Baghdad as a preferred tourist
destination. Things are perfect in Iraq. Everyone is dancing
in the streets and are calling for a peace deal with Israel.
Mission Accomplished. You need a dose of reality. Prior to the
invasion, Iraq was a hellhole. It's still a hellhole. The only
difference is that there are thousands of American troops being picked
off
In eight months there have been fewer than 400 Americans killed, fewer
than were blown up one night in 1983
in Beirut (420) in one Muslim terrorist act. Come on, stop the
exaggerating. Over seven hundred thousand American
soldiers died in the Civil War, when the total population of the U.S.
was only 30 million.
One American soldier killed is a tragedy. And we all grieve. But put the
present casualties in
historical perspective--160,000 American military were killed in WW1,
590,000 in WW II,
56,000 in Korea and 58,000 in Viet Nam. It is just the U.S. and Western
media that are blowing
the number of casualties out of proportion because they
have their own political agenda. The "liberal" appeasors and traitors
want the
American public to rebel as they did during Viet Nam. But the U.S.
cannot cut and run today because
it is confronted with an enemy of 1.2 billion adversaries or potential
adversaries the Muslim Umma.
9/11 showed that America's enemy will not allow it to bury its head in
the sand the U.S. did under
Clinton.
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