More Americans have died in Iraq than 9/11

Kytro · 09-13-2006, 07:29 AM

RJ Eskow: DARK MILESTONE: More Americans Have Now Died In Iraq Than Died On 9/11 - Yahoo! News

While
President Bush and other Republican politicians spent the day exploiting the memory of those we lost five years ago, the nation overlooked a grim milestone: More Americans have now died in
Iraq than died on 9/11. Iraq didn't attack us on that day, and our misguided policy there has now taken more American lives than Al Qaeda.

Here are the numbers: 3,015 Americans have died in Iraq as of September 9. 2,666 of these were military deaths and 349 were civilians.

The Republicans are fond of playing cheap number games with Iraqi casualty figures, and one of the ways they do it is by listing the deaths of enlisted personnel only. They're hoping that a lazy press and an indifferent public will overlook the civilian losses, and to a large extent they've been right so far.

A total of 2,973 people died on 9/11. Most, although not all, were Americans.

What has Iraq got to do with 9/11? Unless this is just saying the Iraq war was/is worse than 9/11?

The opinion article does seem quite critical, but I'm not sure that is a bad thing.

beez · 09-13-2006, 09:07 AM

Iraq's got more impressive casualty figures than 9/11, that's for sure

Nonphixion · 09-13-2006, 10:23 AM

Americans Wounded or Psychologically Disabled 45,000
Total number of Iraqis killed 135,000

WickedLou9 · 09-13-2006, 10:26 AM

Originally Posted by Nonphixion

Americans Wounded or Psychologically Disabled 45,000
Total number of Iraqis killed 135,000

and there were no WMD's or WMD programs, and there were no ties to Al-queda or to the 9/11 hijackers.

Way to go USA!

thomez · 09-13-2006, 02:12 PM

that's sad and disturbing

SpicyMcVoodoo · 09-13-2006, 03:58 PM

Originally Posted by thomez

that's sad and disturbing

It's sad, yes, but what's really disturbing is how people rationalize it as a good thing, e.g., we're fighting them there so we don't fight them at home.

Phantom · 09-13-2006, 04:14 PM

Originally Posted by Nonphixion

Americans Wounded or Psychologically Disabled 45,000
Total number of Iraqis killed 135,000

Those numbers aren't exactly what anyone wants to hear, but what exactly is psychologically disabled?

thomez · 09-13-2006, 04:18 PM

Originally Posted by Phantom

Those numbers aren't exactly what anyone wants to hear, but what exactly is psychologically disabled?

The feeling that I get when I realize what we have done the past 5 years.

beez · 09-13-2006, 05:06 PM

Originally Posted by Phantom

Those numbers aren't exactly what anyone wants to hear, but what exactly is psychologically disabled?

Unable to function "normally" because of stress encountered while on duty, I believe.

SpicyMcVoodoo · 09-13-2006, 05:08 PM

Originally Posted by beez

Unable to function "normally" because of stress encountered while on duty, I believe.

Probably PTSD. I heard 20% of vets have it.

motivez · 09-16-2006, 03:43 PM

I think it's a sad statistic, but I think if you really want to combat the terrorism we saw on 9/11, (which we aren't with our diversion into Iraq) we can't be afraid to be in such a conflict.

ballz2wallz · 09-16-2006, 03:48 PM

More American's died in WWII than at Pearl Harbor. Such is war.

sj23 · 09-16-2006, 04:56 PM

We must fight them over there before they can attack us here

Bush failed as owner of the Texas Rangers and as Prez because he forgot that a good defense is better than an offense.