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[Interested]

This article gives a breakdown of US casualties in Iraq.

http://www.counterpunch.com/wheeler11022006.html

[spliff]

Right, does this thread have a point, actually?

[EFLtrainer]

The numbers alone are enough for sober refelction and reconsideration of current events and choices.

[Hollywoodaction]

http://icasualties.org/oif/default.aspx

Don't forget all those wounded soldiers.


Late 70's. A little boy gets lost in the mall. He frantically searches for his mom, but she is nowhere to be found. He suddenly realizes he should have paid attention to his mother's warnings to stay close to her. As he walks through the hall, he sees a tall old man standing straight as an arrow in the corner by the entrance. He wears a berret and has rows of medals pinned to his chest. He looks like someone who must be very important to the boy. With tears in his eyes, the boy asks the proud old man if he could help him find his mom.

I later learned that the man was my aunt's dad. He was a war-amputee, lost an arm in WW2. He was on veteran's pension, so to keep himself busy, he would volunteer as a security guard at the local mall. He always looked sharp in his Royal Canadian Legion member's uniform, left-sleeve neatly folded and fastened with a pin.

[Octavius Hite]

Great article on the terror being inflicted now on US soldiers, it would serve Rumsfeld well to go back and look at the Battle of Stalingrad. Go here and read it all:

http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/11/03/news/sniper.php

[Interested]

Yeah, I feel so sorry for these young soldiers who went off believing they were doing a great thing for their country, but were used as cannon fodder in a most disgraceful exercise. Even those who come out physically unscathed will probably have mental problems for the rest of their lives. And for what? We should never never send our young people to fight a war unless that war is truly necessary and justified.

I know an Australian Vietnam veteran - he was never wounded but even after all these years he suffers from terrible depression and post traumatic stress. Unfortunately, few people can understand his terrible suffering (they think he should just get over it) and he feels very isolated, even from his own family. What was that war about?

[EFLtrainer]

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