Don't be a fool and die for your country. Let the other sonofabitch die for his.
-- General George S. Patton
April 18, 2004
11 More US Troops Dead, Total Reaches 700
Eleven U.S. troops have died from combat wounds in Iraq over the weekend, the U.S. military announced today, according to CNN. Since the start of the war, 700 Americans have been killed. 700 of my brethren have given there lives in the war on terror and the pursuit of freedom.
While a single loss is too many we do need to keep in mind what we are doing and how much more efficient we have become. 700 is a tiny number in comparison to the number of troops that have served in the Middle East since the start of Operation IRAQI FREEDOM.
I am not here to say that 700 lives are acceptable. In fact, I am here to pay tribute to those 700 brave men and women who have sacrificed there lives.
I think that Americans need to stop protesting our actions in the Middle east and using American casualties as their excuse. If you look at past conflicts such as Vietnam and Korea or further back at WWII or the Great War in which we lost tens of thousands of troops and in some cases we didn't reach our objective. In Iraq we managed to free an oppressed people, help eliminate one more possible source of terrorism and WMD.
Americans need to help the troops stay focused. Americans need to stay strong and show that we are not a wishy-washy people. If we look at the events in other countries we need to learn from them and remember that we are Americans.
Look at Spain for example. Their new prime minister, Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, announced he will withdraw Spanish troops from Iraq "in the shortest time possible." This statement is what won him an election. After the attack in Spain on 3/11 his political focus was to get Spain out of Iraq. It got him elected, but it also got him labeled. Like many other nations, Spain will now be known as a nation of sissies.
Unlike other nations of the world, we are not quitters. Casualties, though sad and often gruesome, are a fact of war. WE ARE AT WAR. Why can't the American people realize this?
Part of it is that "Duty, Honor,Country" is a totally foreign concept to many of these barking moonbats.
They do not see the bodies in the news as their bretheren, only as pawns in a vicious political game. It isn't a personal realization of what is truly happening in the world; it's all a big political board game to be played for their aggrandizement.
THEY will complain if they are delayed 20 minutes in boarding a plane, and complain just as vociferously if a plane goes down through terrorist action...either scenereo is proof to them that the administration is evil.
THEY complain of our sons and daughters dying in a foreign land, not realizing that if they weren't, there would be civilians dying HERE.
War is an abstract thing to them and will continue to be unless and untill it directly affects them personally, and I fear that the immediate reaction they will have in that case is "why didn't Bush stop this from happening to ME?" F.E.T.E.
Part of it is that "Duty, Honor,Country" is a totally foreign concept to many of these barking moonbats.
They do not see the bodies in the news as their bretheren, only as pawns in a vicious political game. It isn't a personal realization of what is truly happening in the world; it's all a big political board game to be played for their aggrandizement.
THEY will complain if they are delayed 20 minutes in boarding a plane, and complain just as vociferously if a plane goes down through terrorist action...either scenereo is proof to them that the administration is evil.
THEY complain of our sons and daughters dying in a foreign land, not realizing that if they weren't, there would be civilians dying HERE.
War is an abstract thing to them and will continue to be unless and untill it directly affects them personally, and I fear that the immediate reaction they will have in that case is "why didn't Bush stop this from happening to ME?" F.E.T.E.
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Posted by: Phendimetrazine at April 15, 2005 01:48 PM