Death toll of U.S. soldiers in Iraq reaches 4,000Absolutely! The first death was just as horrible and reprehensible and preventable as the 4,000th. Calling the milestone artificial is twisted use of language that attempts to state a truth in such a way as to downplay the importance of the fact contained within.
The U.S. military dismisses such tolls as arbitrary markers.
'It is artificial in the sense that somehow the 4,000th tragic loss somehow will be different from the first,' U.S. military spokesman Rear Admiral Greg Smith told Reuters in an interview last week.
Although Americans are more preoccupied with domestic economic troubles, the Iraq war is still an important issue in the presidential campaign, with Democratic hopefuls Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama calling for a timetable for withdrawal.This is one of the clear and very real differences between myself and other candidates. If a corrupt administration could send those troops over there with little to no input or consent of other branches of government then I an administration can pull them out immediately. There is no need to ask anyone for a timetable. The proper time is right-fucking-now!
We should not have gone in. The longer our stay, the greater the insult to the region. Our elected officials fucked up. Get out now!
Some random person walks up to you late one evening and sticks and knife in your belly. "Oh! Sorry mate. I thought you were someone else." The damage is done and you're pissed. But now instead of pulling the blade out, he leaves it there. His hand is shaking all the time. But he insists that if you just wait for the wound to heal around the intruding foreign body everything will be fine. It doesn't matter one bit if you were going to midnight mass or on your way to rob a bank, this guy mistakenly attacked you. Pull out and let real healing begin.
And for those who like to pray, say a lot of prayers that the attacked doesn't decide to kick us in our collective asses.
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