'Sad' is what Tony Snowjob calls 2500 dead American troops....not criminal, not tragic, not the waste of brave troops....'sad'.
Troops sent to stop Saddam from finishing his nuclear bomb before he could hit us with it, and to get his huge stockpile of WMD's. oops....we mean to bring freedom to the Iraqis out of the goodness of Bush Rove Cheney and Rumsfeld's wrinkled little hearts. The Iraqis need protection from the torture and killing being rained on them by Saddam. Good thing huh...Saddam didn't have the clout we have to do THOSE jobs right. So 2500 brave troops, told they were defending us, are dead....well, that number isn't accurate either. It means dead ON THE SPOT....the ones that died after being evacuated aren't worthy of being included or honored. and the 100,000 to 250,000 Iraqi civilians that we snuffed? Wrong place at the wrong time so phuck them I guess. when will we walk these traitors to the dock???? Heckofa job Rumsfeld! You TOO Shrub! White House laments 2,500 U.S. military deaths in Iraq The number of U.S. military deaths in Iraq has reached 2,500 on Thursday, which the White House described as a "sad benchmark." "It's a number ... a sad benchmark," White House spokesman Tony Snow said at a daily press briefing. "The president (George W. Bush) would like the war to be over now," he said, though Bush himself on Wednesday once again dismissed calls for U.S. withdrawal and refused to give a timetable for success which would allow U.S. troops to come home. The new body count was announced by the Pentagon earlier in the day. But it did not identify the 2,500th causality, in line with a U. S. policy not to release details until 24 hours after the family has been informed. The news came at a time when the trend of U.S. military deaths in Iraq moves upward again following a short period of decline. Between November 2005 and March 2006, the number of U.S. military fatalities in Iraq fell month-by-month, as insurgents seemed to focus attacks on Iraqi security forces and civilians. However, they jumped back above the average for April and May. The Pentagon put the blame on a recent surge in rebel violence. Attempting to soothe public uneasiness about the death toll, The Pentagon noted that the death rate for U.S. troops is much lower than those in the Vietnam or Korean wars, to which Iraq has sometimes been compared. In each of those conflicts more than 50,000 U.S. troops died, it said. "It's important to remember that there is a mission, and there is a greater good which sometimes necessitates tremendous sacrifice," said U.S. Army Brig Gen. Carter Ham. Meanwhile, the Pentagon never makes any official count on how many common Iraqis have been killed in the war. Iraq Body Count, a U.S.-British civilian watchdog, estimates that the number of Iraqi civilians killed since the outset of the conflict ranges between 38,355 and 42,747. Other estimates put the number of civilian casualties much higher. With the number of military and civilian deaths in Iraq continuing to grow, Americans are increasingly negative about the war. Domestic polls in the United States suggest opposition to America's presence in Iraq is growing while support for Bush's handling of the war is declining. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Check out the new improvements in Yahoo! Groups email. http://us.click.yahoo.com/bmUd6C/fOaOAA/cUmLAA/KlSolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> ForumWebSiteAt http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Libertarian Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Libertarian/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
