Comments on: U.S. Death Toll In Iraq Hits 7-Month High

GIs Killed In Latest Attacks Pushes April Total To 47; U.S. Troops Ambushed In Sadr City

[xiazner]

Ok I just got home. So let''s see...people are saying it''s ALL bushes fault...and that this war is based on lies...etc.etc...

Number 1: Nearly half the things Bush can do (if not ALL) is processed through CONGRESS. Note that if you''re going to be mad at someone, blame BOTH of them.

Number 2: Do we know these are lies? How do we know WHAT is really going on? This is the press people, they can do d4mn well what they want, and can pretty much put in anything they want in their reports. Listen to the experts such as General Patreus (forgive me if I misspelled his name).

Number 3: I declare cookies! Free bunnies for all! Except for the idiots...which is a lot of people here...

[idnnsg]

"I believe that our casualty rates now are much lower than they were in Vietnam, in the World Wars, and at more than half of the battles of the Civil War." - xiazner

Apples to oranges!

Those wars had defined objectives and possibly even good reasons. This war (the "War on Terra") is a war of greed, based on lies, and is scheduled to last FOREVER (if the repugs get their way).

Furthermore, the true body count is in the millions! But we don''t count the human beings we murder; we only count "our own".

However, we don''t even count our own casualties correctly. Anything that happens after discharge is not counted. So, we don''t count the vast number of casualties due to PTSD-- you know, the cr@zy ones who who, after one day escaping the stop-loss hell and returning to the states, will then murder their wives and gfs, children, coworkers, etc.

[tylenol6]

Let''s demand the Bush twins go to Iraq. You know, for the good of the country to fight their daddy''s nightmare
of a war.

[straightmate]

Normally I can post something worth saying but this bush/cheney disaster is so bad I can barely type. What were you republican idiots thinking when you elected these monsters? God bless the US military. What would we do without you all.

[ontheleft]

As long as the flow of $120/barrel oil continues, who cares how many die?

Now pardon me while I gas up my Hummer and stick another yellow ribbon magnet on it.

[gce65]

Surge? More like one big, expensive *******!

[jerr11]

What''s the difference between Bin Laden and George W Bush?

1059 Dead Americans.

Bush wins the body count hands down!

Heckuva job, Liar-in-Chief!

[jerr11]

What''s the difference between John Wayne Gacy and George Walker Bush?

4030 American victims!

Heckuva job, Liar-in-Chief!

IRLiberal wrote:

"But but but... I thought the surge worked!! Hey everyone says it worked? I mean Rush said it worked. Bush said it worked. Petraeus said it worked. All the little neocon minions said it worked."

If you follow the timeline (and not the lies of Petraeus and the Republicanazis), the decline in the number of US deaths in Iraq matches up with the beginning of the truce with Muqtada al-Sadr last year.

When Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki began the crackdown on militias, the deaths of US servicemen began to rise again.

While I have no doubt that the surge is responsible for helping to save some US lives, it was only ever going to be a temporary thing anyway.

[j-whitman]

Ah,, I got it now... The 5th Anniversary is wood -- Let''s march on the White House & the GOP headquarters with baseball bats