Comments on: U.S. Death Toll In Iraq Hits 4,000

Casualty Milestones Are Arbitrary But Draw Attention To The Human Cost Of The War

[prinzowhales]

The US supported Saddam Hussein in a war of aggression against Iran which flew in the face of international law (and, what doesn''t under the rule of those who would subject the people of this earth to the rule of the New World Order?). We provided illegal funding throught the Atlanta branch of an Italian bank.

[j-whitman]

jackie0428,,,,, I don''t need to go into the failures that have lead to the 5 years of lack of accomplishments - Those are self-evident

Neither the Sheiites or the Sunni''s want us there at all, they do want our money... But, invading Iraq not only opened the door for Al Queda, it gave Iran the authority to support the Sheiite government, which is what they want...... Iraq has to stand on it''s own & the people are ready to do just that.

McCain has no concept to get us out & his agressions against Iran is causing more radicalims & destabelization in the region.

[jackie0428]

J-whitman, yeah, that''s your opinion. And that word "contained" is a meaningless buzz word, contrived to rationalize inaction. It means nothing. And even if true, it just shows you care nothing about the 500,000+ people Hussein killed and dumped into mass graves. Meanwhile, libs like you worry more about whales and the rain forest than rows of Iraqi civilians who were mowed down with machine guns by a "contained" Saddam. You and all libs: pathetic and weak. You should be ashamed.

[prinzowhales]

jackie0428--Iraq invaded Iran with the backing of the Washington Regime which financed them and provided them with WMDs. Hussein invaded Kuwait to deal with the slant-drilling oil theives, the Sabah family and he got the tacit permission of our ambassador, April Glaspie before doing so.

Its little wonder that Bush had the Iraqi reports to the UN detailing his WMD suppliers held back from the American people.

[j-whitman]

jackie0428,,, Reguardless, Iraq was contained & our Pentagon said there was no credible evidence to take us into it...

IT WAS A NEEDLESS WAR OF AGRESSION THAT DESTRACTED FROM THE WAR ON TERROR - WE ARE MUCH LESS SAFE AS A DIRECT RESULT & OUR NATIONAL SECURITY & MILITARY ARE DAMAGED.

[prinzowhales]

curse914--And that farcical Drug War got really hammered when the Demopublicans increased Opium production in Afghanistan to record levels.

I''ve yet to hear the Demopublican leadership or candidates address the tons of cocaine found on two CIA planes that went down in Mexico that were tied to Bush contributors and renditions.

We support the INTERPOL-named narco-terrorist KLA in Serbia...We support the narco-regimes in Bogota and Mexico City and protect the one in Kabul with our blood and treasure.

[jackie0428]

Prinzowhales, calm down, take a deep breath. Perhaps you forgot your meds today. Sheesh.

[jackie0428]

J-Whitman, sorry, but you''re just wrong. I agree with MichaelT on this one. Iraq was an extremely agressive country. They had already invaded 2 of their neighbors(Kuwait and Iran) in the past , and they had been threatening to do so in Saudi Arabia as well. They also ignored over a dozen critical UN resolutions for over 10 years. There are some countries that only be dealt with by military force, and Iraq was clearly one of them. God bless the US military.

[rhmc430]

I just read that VP Cheney said, when asked about the deaths of 4000 U.S. Military personnel, "Well they
volunteered... How dare he!!! Not one of those 4000, nor the living members of the Armed Services, volunteered to die. They volunteered to fight for freedom. They all heard both Bush & Cheney tell us falsehood after falsehood about Iraq having weapons of mass destruction. They are still at it over Iran.
These two should be tried for the falsehoods they told us and still tell.
The Democrats should get their act together and finally stop the infighting and get to the meat of the matter of ending this war. I Must end this by saying again---HOW DARE HE!!!

[prinzowhales]

Obama says he going to keep sufficient troops in Iraq to protect that White Elephant of an embassy and provide ball boys for the diplomats playing there.

Considering the mortar attacks the Green Zone took for a whole day in surge protected Baghdad, he is apparently going to need a whole bunch. He''s also said that he will deploy combat troops if al Qaeda establishes a base there...well, al Qaeda is essentially anywhere Bush, Barney, Betrayus and friends say they are...