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Sick and Tired of the Comparisons Between Iraq and Vietnam

Especially the casualty comparisons . . .

Here are the facts.

Vietnam total hostile casualties: 47,413.
Length of War: 16 years
Avg. hostile troop deaths per year: 2,963
Iraq war hostile casualties: 2,907
Length of War: 5 years
Avg. hostile troop deaths per year: 600 (appx.)

Look, in 5 years of fighting in Iraq the TOTAL casualties (including non-combat casualties) haven’t yet even reached the AVERAGE ANNUAL hostile-only casualty count of Vietnam. Annual troop death are 20% of the Vietnam total.

AND Here’s another nugget for you. U.S. hostile troop deaths have declined in Iraq every year.

   

So what do people who compare this to Vietnam mean by “just like Vietnam”?They mean what Harry Reid, great American that he is, said yesterday, “This war is lost.”

They think it’s lost, so they compare it to the most recent “lost” war that memory recalls - Vietnam.

I’m sick and tired of it.

By “lost” I think they mean they’ve LOST THEIR NERVE, WILL, GOOD JUDGMENT, COMMON SENSE, PERSPECTIVE, AND INTEGRITY.

This is just politics they’re playing. Pile on the administration to take power back. Politics has it’s place. Not here. They’re playing politics with the lives of millions of Iraqis, our troops and allied troops stationed there, and Americans like me who know that they keep to keeping terrorist attacks off American soil is to keep them fighting us AWAY FROM American soil. And that’s exactly what’s happening. Or perhaps Democrats find it uncomfortable that our terrorist enemies (starting with Osama Bin Laden) have declared that the front for the war on the West is Iraq and have summoned all forces there to fight us. But why should we take our enemies word for it? Well, their actions speak pretty loudly, too, because there they are, fighting us. Oh, and Iran sure wouldn’t mind watching us surrender now, would they?

What do Democrats think is going to happen if we withdraw?

You don’t hear them talking about that. They know it’s genocide for both Shia and Sunni. They know it means a haven for terrorists, just like Afghanistan before we cleaned it up. They know it means chaos and bloodshed for years to come and we’ll likely have to invade another time (just as we had to invade Afghanistan) after it becomes a haven for terrorists, except then the task will be more dire and the casualties much higher, and the population more hostile (having been once betrayed by defeatist Democrats.) Yet these small minded, defeatist, soon-to-potentially-be-covered-with-blood-on-their-hand democrats daily press forward with their disingenuous and false “this war is lost” talk and calls for withdrawal and surrender.

This is not just a difference of opinion. This is treason. This is an abdication of responsibility and trust. We trust our leaders to keep us safe. We trust them to do the right thing. We trust them to finish the job. Look, whether they want it or not, they inherit the responsibility to finish this the right way - and the right way is not genocide or creating a safe haven for terrorists, or emboldening those that with death on our civilization. When Democrats ran for office last year they called for a “change of course” and said they’d bring a “new direction,” not a “surrender”. And that’s why most Americans do not support surrender. They just want the war won. They want to be kept safe.

Surrender does neither.

It’s irresponsible. And it’s insane. And it merely defers the day of reckoning (passes the buck) to another generation of Americans who will have to confront an emboldened and larger threat, because the defeatists did not stand up to the challenge of dealing with it now, here, today.

Who wants war? No one. Not me. But I prefer it to the alternative . . . I worked 4 blocks from the WTC in September 2001. On September 10th 2001 I took the train to Jersey from the stop under the WTC, as I did every day. The next day, I saw the towers fall with my own eyes. I understand the threat. Why don’t those in Washington. This is not about Saddam Hussein or Iraq. This is about fighting terrorists THERE, and keeping them away from HERE.

I didn’t support going into Iraq at the time the US did, but I absolutely don’t support pulling out now.  It has become a front in the fight against murderous extremism and it needs to be won … then bring the troops home.

April 20, 2007 | Filed Under Uncategorized 

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Evil

An eruption of evil in virginia yesterday. Do guns kill people? Or do people kill people? Would having more people carry guns limit the damage madmen can do? Or does more people having more guns encourage more violence.

I’m having a hard time comprehending the scope and scale of the evil this one person has done. Could he have known what he was doing? Could he have comprehended the pain and loss that would ripple outward from this stone throw? The children unborn to the people whose lives were lost. The parents who will never share in the milestones, the grandchildren.  The marriages. The birthdays. The holidays. The creations, acts of service, good works that those people will never do.

In one hour, futures erased. In one eruption of evil. untold evil one agent can spread.

But evil cannot be permitted to win.  evil wins if we, the living, forget or don’t remember right . . . .

If we, the living, redouble our efforts at good, to in some way try and compensate for evil’s recent victory. If we overwhelm evil with good. If we refuse to cave to evil when it erupts. if we give life when evil takes it. if we hang together and embrace where evil tears apart. If we refuse to allow evil to steal the goodness in us. If we refuse to allow evil its day. if we mourn its victims and commit to never, ourselves, be its agent. if it loses its place in us.

If evil loses its place in us. If.  And only if.

April 17, 2007 | Filed Under Uncategorized 

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