Comments on: 44 US Troops Died In Iraq This Month http://www.plunderbund.com/2008/04/29/44-us-troops-died-in-iraq-this-month/ A Progressive Political Playground Wed, 20 Aug 2008 13:57:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 By: Joseph http://www.plunderbund.com/2008/04/29/44-us-troops-died-in-iraq-this-month/#comment-99707 Joseph Wed, 30 Apr 2008 13:18:35 +0000 http://www.plunderbund.com/?p=3694#comment-99707 The problem in Iraq is very different than other wars we've been in recently. There isn't any one specific group that we can defeat to pacify the country. There isn't any one leader with whom we can sign a treaty. It isn't like we can just set up a couple of bases with a few hundred soldiers and keep the peace. We have hundreds of thousands of troops over there and they are being attacked and killed every day by multiple enemies. Everyone is against us. No one wants us there except Bush and McCain. We need a plan to get out. The problem in Iraq is very different than other wars we’ve been in recently.

There isn’t any one specific group that we can defeat to pacify the country. There isn’t any one leader with whom we can sign a treaty.

It isn’t like we can just set up a couple of bases with a few hundred soldiers and keep the peace.

We have hundreds of thousands of troops over there and they are being attacked and killed every day by multiple enemies.

Everyone is against us. No one wants us there except Bush and McCain.

We need a plan to get out.

]]> By: Eric http://www.plunderbund.com/2008/04/29/44-us-troops-died-in-iraq-this-month/#comment-99694 Eric Wed, 30 Apr 2008 02:33:44 +0000 http://www.plunderbund.com/?p=3694#comment-99694 @16: So was Wright. So was Kerry. But you continue to avoid acknowledging such. @16: So was Wright. So was Kerry. But you continue to avoid acknowledging such.

]]> By: J-Dog http://www.plunderbund.com/2008/04/29/44-us-troops-died-in-iraq-this-month/#comment-99693 J-Dog Wed, 30 Apr 2008 02:33:07 +0000 http://www.plunderbund.com/?p=3694#comment-99693 Matt: No, you're saying we didn't win the Cold War and that all of our military spending was wasted. You're disrespecting all the troops who fought nobly in Korea and saying that their sacrifices were for nothing. You probably even hate Radar O'Reilly. You're un-American. Why do you hate America, Matt? Matt:

No, you’re saying we didn’t win the Cold War and that all of our military spending was wasted. You’re disrespecting all the troops who fought nobly in Korea and saying that their sacrifices were for nothing. You probably even hate Radar O’Reilly. You’re un-American. Why do you hate America, Matt?

]]> By: Matt N. http://www.plunderbund.com/2008/04/29/44-us-troops-died-in-iraq-this-month/#comment-99692 Matt N. Wed, 30 Apr 2008 02:23:22 +0000 http://www.plunderbund.com/?p=3694#comment-99692 I said that the outcome in Korea didn't help our efforts in the Cold War. But we clearly won the cold war. Good grief. Bottom line is, McCain was quoted out of context. I said that the outcome in Korea didn’t help our efforts in the Cold War. But we clearly won the cold war. Good grief.

Bottom line is, McCain was quoted out of context.

]]> By: J-Dog http://www.plunderbund.com/2008/04/29/44-us-troops-died-in-iraq-this-month/#comment-99690 J-Dog Wed, 30 Apr 2008 02:10:27 +0000 http://www.plunderbund.com/?p=3694#comment-99690 Matt: Look, we're all really sorry that no one would agree to go to the prom with you, but that does not give you license to just make up crap. So, are you saying that we lost the Cold War, Matt? Is that what you're saying? Are you saying that Reagan spent too much money on the military? Are you saying that Eisenhower was correct in warning us about the military-industrial complex? Or...are you going to say that I took what you said out of context? Matt:

Look, we’re all really sorry that no one would agree to go to the prom with you, but that does not give you license to just make up crap. So, are you saying that we lost the Cold War, Matt? Is that what you’re saying? Are you saying that Reagan spent too much money on the military? Are you saying that Eisenhower was correct in warning us about the military-industrial complex? Or…are you going to say that I took what you said out of context?

]]> By: Matt N. http://www.plunderbund.com/2008/04/29/44-us-troops-died-in-iraq-this-month/#comment-99685 Matt N. Wed, 30 Apr 2008 01:35:41 +0000 http://www.plunderbund.com/?p=3694#comment-99685 We didn't win the Korean War. In terms of the Cold War, our efforts solved little. Thousands haven't been killed in Korea last year? I bet there are some families in North Korea who, if they were allowed to speak, would disagree with you. We didn’t win the Korean War. In terms of the Cold War, our efforts solved little.

Thousands haven’t been killed in Korea last year? I bet there are some families in North Korea who, if they were allowed to speak, would disagree with you.

]]> By: Joseph http://www.plunderbund.com/2008/04/29/44-us-troops-died-in-iraq-this-month/#comment-99684 Joseph Wed, 30 Apr 2008 01:32:04 +0000 http://www.plunderbund.com/?p=3694#comment-99684 Depends, I suppose, on how you define "win", Matt. Hundreds of thousands of Koreans weren't killed last year. Can you say the same thing for Iraq? Depends, I suppose, on how you define “win”, Matt.

Hundreds of thousands of Koreans weren’t killed last year.

Can you say the same thing for Iraq?

]]> By: Matt N. http://www.plunderbund.com/2008/04/29/44-us-troops-died-in-iraq-this-month/#comment-99683 Matt N. Wed, 30 Apr 2008 01:22:44 +0000 http://www.plunderbund.com/?p=3694#comment-99683 Joe, we won the Korean War? I won't hold this against you. I understand where you're coming from, as I am also a fellow survivor of the public education system. Joe, we won the Korean War?

I won’t hold this against you. I understand where you’re coming from, as I am also a fellow survivor of the public education system.

]]> By: Eric http://www.plunderbund.com/2008/04/29/44-us-troops-died-in-iraq-this-month/#comment-99682 Eric Wed, 30 Apr 2008 01:18:40 +0000 http://www.plunderbund.com/?p=3694#comment-99682 @10: Damn, you beat me to this point. That was my very next comment. In fact, thinking of working it into a post about how Obama is right in what he says based on this distinction. McCain is (once again) out to lunch on what the facts on the ground are. His allusion to previous wars mean jack squat to this situation in Iraq. @10: Damn, you beat me to this point. That was my very next comment. In fact, thinking of working it into a post about how Obama is right in what he says based on this distinction. McCain is (once again) out to lunch on what the facts on the ground are. His allusion to previous wars mean jack squat to this situation in Iraq.

]]> By: Joseph http://www.plunderbund.com/2008/04/29/44-us-troops-died-in-iraq-this-month/#comment-99681 Joseph Wed, 30 Apr 2008 01:14:25 +0000 http://www.plunderbund.com/?p=3694#comment-99681 The military presence in Korea, Japan and Germany is VERY different than our presence in Iraq. VERY different. We won the war in all of these countries. Won the war against the COUNTRY we were fighting. Who are we fighting in Iraq? The military presence in Korea, Japan and Germany is VERY different than our presence in Iraq.

VERY different.

We won the war in all of these countries.

Won the war against the COUNTRY we were fighting.

Who are we fighting in Iraq?

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