As Kos sums up:
| Body armor is the only thing keeping Iraq from producing Vietnam-type KIA figures. As Newsweek noted, this is Phase II of the insurgency. Phase I, recruitment, is finished. Now the insurgents are out for blood (to the tune of over 70 attacks every day). We've lost this war. We've literally lost entire swaths of Iraqi territory to the insurgents. We've empowered Al Qaida and Islamist militants with new recruits and pictures of prison torture and rape to fuel their cause. We''ve stretched our military thin, hurt recruitment, made it impossible to respond to actual threats. In short, this is the biggest political and military blunder this country has faced since -- I'll let the historians decide when. But as things are going, this is going to have worse repercussions for our nation than Vietnam ever did. |
Even worse are the 100+ Iraqi civilians getting slaughtered each day. This is madness instigated by an American government led by Christian fundamental extremists who place no value on human life other than their own or those who give them money. How on earth can any voter even consider placing a mark next to any of their names on the ballot in November? What kind of warped perception of the world has much of America formed during the past 4 years? If your child blatantly lies to you about the need to do something, then does something terrible and then lies about the reason he/she did it, do you say to that child: "It's okay, I understand; and if you lie to me again, I'll understand and I'll support whatever you think you need to do in the future"? Apparently 47% of all parents do. We are all responsible for what's happening. We are all at fault, because of our laziness and pathetic humanitarianism, for allowing so many of us to gain such a warped perception. You are, I am, and every other reader is responsible for each and every civilian death in Iraq today and we must stop it now, because those
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