Comments on: U.S. Death Toll In Iraq Tops 3,500

23 Deaths In First Six Days Of June, Almost Double That Of June 2006

[winnerindia]

" Tell that to the spouses, parents and children of our service members who are currently serving in the Theater of Operations. ...without reservation, to protect the likes of you.
Posted by detherton63

I am never saying that our soldiers should be killed. I merely wrote in a stiric manner that the *** holes who are not calling back our troops should call back troops whatever the excuse may be. Will they call troops after they are killed in scores greater than Vietnam? I am afraid.

[hungry1968]

I can appreciate how frustrated die-hard repubs must feel with the thought of a Democrat taking office and it being unknown how they'll deal with the war on terror.
Posted by SamTheTVCat at 05:00 PM : Jun 07, 2007

The war on terror is in Afghanistan. That's where the Taliban was based, that's where they hid and are still hiding, and it's where they're making a comeback.

You're wondering how the Democrats will deal with the war on terror? It's almost 6 years after 9/11, and I'm still trying to figure out why Bush is ignoring the terrorists that attacked us, to start a civil war in a country that didn't attack us.

When are the Republicans going to do something about the war on terror instead of worrying about the Iraq civil war?

[smirk5]

Poor Bush Jr.

A few years ago, the GOP that nearly completely supported Bush in every way was talking about his having a mandate (hows that going?) to run the country. Now, I bet they're worried he might be allowed to speak at the next GOP convention.

And, it's all because he kept putting lipstick on his pig called Iraq over and over. Someone should have told him that you can't do that forever and get away with it. If you continue to say we're making progress and we're winning you eventually have to show some results that everyone can agree on.

[detherton63]

Quote from winnerindia: "The number of US troops killed or burnt on daily basis should be increased in order to save the money of an American tax payer. This would also force snakes to call back our troops."

Tell that to the spouses, parents and children of our service members who are currently serving in the Theater of Operations. It is hard for me to understand how you would (or could) wish for the deaths of our Soldiers just to make a point. As an Active Duty Soldier with over 26 years of service, it pains me to think that I serve, without reservation, to protect the likes of you.

[tejasdemo]

The Dems had a chance to make a statement regarding this war recently with the funding and they wussied out.

I am ashamed and mad as hell all at the same time.

[katie_legs]

The United States public has duped by a moron
about WMD, and same idiot had Colin Powell lie before the UN about the mobile chemical labs in Iraq before we invaded Iraq
1) Couldn't show up for a physical in the Texas air guard...Never found in a war or has any idea
aboout any logistical logic concerning a war and
thinks that this surge is going to win over Iraq.
1) Doesn't have a brain in his head or have a plan about how to run foreign policy
3) Has created irreputable harm in the United States as well damaged foreign relations because
of Iraq/ Afghagistan.
4) Has exacerbated the terroist problems in general - More than ever.
5) Turned Iraq into a civil War and indirectly
responsible for over 150,000 Iraq Civilian Deaths
(Iraqi Liberation) in addition to over 3500 American causualties. (not to mention the Americans who are disbaled permanently or mained
without arms or legs.
6) Has wreaked havoc with the middle class structure since alot of jobs have been outsourced.
7) Has created havoc with the Medical care system in this country.
8) Has been incompetent about the way he handled
the Katrina Crisis
6) Has increased the national debt by at least 3.3-4 trillion over the course of 6 YEARS AND 4 MONTHS
7) Never had a plan as far as leading this country into a propserity. Well the circus will be over when the fact lady sings. The llist goes on.

[sayfud-deen]

i see all of you in the mainstream media are sticking to the 3500 casualty figure,and you want us to believe that the surge is working,and of course, you still want us to believe that these wars have not cost the taxpayers over a trillon dollars! when are you in the media going to start telling the people in this country the truth?

[winnerindia]

The number of US troops killed or burnt on daily basis should be increased in order to save the money of an American tax payer. This would also force snakes to call back our troops.

[winnerindia]

yopa. Beghdahad is a hot place to live.

[pepperp1]

US policy has been high jacked by neo conservatives ideologues who believe in world domination of all things and the use of military force to take that power for themselves in furtherance of their interest, they are a bunch of incompetent whacko and they are pulling the puppet strings of the current GOP. It is not a religious movement but a political force does not be blinded by propaganda that is a smoke screen.

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Institutions

American Enterprise Institute
Bradley Foundation
Foundation for the Defense of Democracies
Henry Jackson Society
Hudson Institute
Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs
Project for the New American Century

Publications

Commentary
Weekly Standard
Political magazines featuring neoconservative ideas:

Front Page Magazine

The National Interest
National Review
Policy Review
The Public Interest

[irishmail42]

rohink asks how many died on D-day, June 6, 1944. And the answer is thousands. And we had allies in Canada, Great Britan, France, Russia just to mention a few. And it was not a war of"choice."

[samthetvcat]

"For those blinded by politics, those that keep harping Iraq didn't attack it was Saudi Arabia, it's time to get a clue! NO SPECIFIC COUNTRY ATTACKED the U.S.. An IDEOLOGY called radical Islam attacked, it can't be any clearer or more truthful than that."
Posted by notblue at 04:13 PM : Jun 07, 2007

You can't beat an ideology with military force unless the goal is to commit mass genocide . . . is that the goal? And even assuming that that was achievable, it's so morally heinous another ideology would crop up to challenge this form of 'democracy' (really a dictatorship or something) . . . come to think of it, hasn't that already started with Putin? All that goodwill carefully cultivated by Reagan has been washed down the tubes!

I can appreciate how frustrated die-hard repubs must feel with the thought of a Democrat taking office and it being unknown how they'll deal with the war on terror - I'll admit the frontrunners have not put themselves out their in terms of their own policies, because they haven't had to with Bush being so unpopular. But let's face it Bush IS making things worse - he's no Reagan.

[itchyb-2009]

"Lives lost: War of Independence 100,000 plus, Civil war 100,000 plus, World War I 100,000 plus, World war II 500,000 plus, Korean war 100,000 plus, Viet Nam war 50,000 plus, First Gul war less than 10,000..."

notblue, U.S. deaths in First Gulf war was indeed less than 10,000. Around 300, actually. So, it was less than 1,000,000 for that matter, but your numbers are quite misleading. Do some research.

[rohink-2009]

Anyone here remember that yesterday, June 6 was D-Day? How many soldiers died in one?

[cdfoxtrot]

Well done, bluestardad, highlighting the role of AIPAC on US foreign policy. Americans are dying by proxy for Israel. That's the truth. The US supports Israel no matter what it does and that's the lightning rod for much of the resentment toward the US around the world. Ordinary people are driven into the arms of fanatic extremists of the likes of Osama by the foreign policy pursued by successive US presidents. Long-term, a truly balanced policy toward the Arab-Israeli problem would be in the interests of Israel and the US -- and the world. Meanwhile, the US can look ahead to continued unrest in the Mid-East, with or without the presence of US troops.

[pepperp1]

Yeah right, you would like to believe it was about Islam that way you can believe you are righteous when killing all these folks, it is about oil and the disruption of oil revenues and the oil corporate complex that the terrorist believe are disenfranchising themselves and the peoples of the ME keeping them from power and the good life. Fact, prior to the Shah being booted 95 percent of the oil revenue from Iran went to BP. Its about power and oil if they were Christians they would still hate us.

[marcodele]

The "Surge" is working great, isn't it?

(Surge = return troop levels to 2005 levels)

[infidel_us]

Roadside bombs courtesy of IRAN. We need to direct some "gunnage" and "bomage" towards Tehran.
I see where Mookie al-Sadr "rejects interference by Tehran", yet we just learned that NATO has proof that they are shipping IED's, RPG's, and C-4.

The b*astards have declared war on us! We should give them what they deserve - death.

[nyckate]

notblue - yeah - now if only we had had a president and presidential cabinet who could see that or at least admit it now - but yet the GOP candidate leading the pack (Rudy-n-Judy) still keep the rhetoric alive -fight them over there instead of here - well clearly 'they' weren't in Iraq till we let them in - and clearly 'they' are everywhere.

A vote for Rudy is a vote

[marcodele]

"An IDEOLOGY called radical Islam attacked"

Iraq is an ideology called radical Islam?

If that's true, why are we attacking a country instead of ideologically attacking radical Islam?