It's Vietnam all over again...

[lsanderson]

Stop Bush's War
By BOB HERBERT

"By some estimates," according to a recent article in Foreign Affairs, "the number of Iraqis who have died as a result of the [U.S.] invasion has reached six figures — vastly more than have been killed by all international terrorists in all of history. Sanctions on Iraq probably were a necessary cause of death for an even greater number of Iraqis, most of them children."

Not everyone agrees that Iraqi deaths have reached six figures. President Bush gave an estimate of 30,000 not too long ago. That's probably low, but horrendous nevertheless. In any event, there is broad agreement that the number of Iraqis slaughtered has reached into the tens of thousands. An ocean of blood has been shed in Mr. Bush's mindless war, and there is no end to this tragic flow in sight. More

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[aelburr.livejournal.com]

Oh yeah... all that stuff the 'liberal press' never shows us. I like to think if we'd had a war fought on our own ground more recently than 1815 we might remember the nasty side a little better.

Just how many civilian casualties ARE acceptable in a predator missile strike meant to kill one believed terrorist anyway?