Why did we have 4 more military deaths in Iraq today and where is the total outrage?

Lawrence Louis

Four more of our precious youth are dieing for an ill-conceived cause because the â€œSURGEâ€ is obviously not working, and merely causing a surge of death on our side. This is the plain, simple, and regrettable truth. Only the most dimwitted Neocon could think that our increased presence in a country, hell bent on seeing us leave, would lead to a DECREASE in fatalities. All we are providing is more target practice for an increasingly strident insurgency.

As far as were the outrage is, I am a bit baffled about that myself. The only thing I can attribute the silence and apathy to, is that only a small percentage of Americans actually keep up with national and international news religiously. Most concern themselves with their local news and weather, and therefore donâ€™t concern themselves with all the ugliness that has engulfed this war.

Itâ€™s the typical American mindset. If they donâ€™t like the way things look, they either ignore the situation, or reinvent it in more palatable terms. Being obese is termed being big boned. A kid who fails academically is a child who has â€œspecial needsâ€ or is â€œgifted in other waysâ€. A war that is going painfully wrong, with a mounting death toll, is compared to a greater tragedy like Vietnam, which had a higher death rate, so as to make our current rate of death in Iraq look paltry in comparison. In America you are free to do many things. Unfortunately, the act of deluding oneself seems to be the freedom we exercise the most.

desertviking_00

Where was your outrage when 9,555 active duty military personnel died between 1980 and 1984? No one was even shooting at us then.

Big PussyCat

Military men and women know what their getting into.
I don't like the war any more than anyone else, but the simple fact is that we are in a war, and there will be casualties on both sides. We are in a war, and we cannot just withdraw.
That would only make us appear weak, and provoke, and embolden our enemies. However you can take comfort in knowing that on January 20, 2009 we will no longer be burdened by having a retard as our president.
You should also know that even though we lost in Vietnam that war broke the back of communism.
With any luck this one will break the back of terrorism.

TMFHS Girl

ONLY 4??? THAT'S GREAT!!! In Viet Nam, it averaged about 4 every hour....

Andrew

The roadside bomb was my neighbors son.

l_payne

I'm showing outrage because the media never reports on how many terrorists were bombed.

mr.phattphatt

i am enraged that even one american died due to those fools who hate God, Christ, Isreal, America, democracy... etc. We should have closed our embassies and ordered all our people out of there long ago and just nuked every home town of every 9/11 terrorist and bagdad and tehran and then ordered them to clean up thier act.. the only way to defeat terrorism is to be so infinitly more terrible that the terrorist that he pees his panties at the thought of us!

spkultr

okay okay okay: you have 2 million dollars
while leaving the bar, you drop 4 dollars on the floor.
is that a big deal in your life?
didn't think so.
now, you have an army of 2 million men.
while screwing around in iraq, you drop 4 men on the floor.
is that a big deal in your life?

satcomgrunt

Americans think it is more important to watch survivor and find out who won American Idol.

erehwon

Hey how about the Al-Qaeda terrorist mastermind who was killed and the other 80 insurgents who were captured? Instead of always focusing on the negative, how about we take just one second to focus on the positives and the excellent job our military and the Iraqi police are doing to restore order there.

purpleheart3@verizon.net

Why did we have 5 people murdered in Pittsburgh today? 8 people murdered in Los Angles? Six in Chicago? Two in Newark? Three in Seattle? Four in New Orleans? Two in D.C.? One in Denver? Seven in Pennsylvania? Fourteen in New York state. Ten In Flordia? All were reported. Stay tuned... it starts all over again at midnight tomorrow, and the day after that, and the day after that, and the day after that, and the day after that, etc. etc. etc. Where is the total outrage?

fir na dli

hmm lets see
battle ofbelleau woods:5,190 or so marines in 6 days

iwo jima: over 5,000 marines in the first month

d-day:(just soldiers taking the beachhead) 90% casualties out of the thousands of soldiers who took place in the assualt in one day.
for the person who lost a marine im very sorry

sounds like we are doing pretty good if you ask me

1st Buzie

The cost of freedom is not cheap. I thank God for our troops everyday

Antonio Banderas

For the same reason there is no outrage over warrantless wiretaps against U.S. Citizens. Or the loss of habeas corpus. Or half the bill of rights. We are desensitized to death and political scandal, and just want to watch American Idol, eat steak, and go out on weekends.

U.S.Veteran

After you do everything you can to convince these knuckleheads that bush and cheney both need to be impeached, and they still won't admit the obvious, that bush knew more about what lead up to 9-11, than he's admitting, one becomes sort of calloused to the effect.

bush has completely pulled the wool over some republican's eyes.

.

Enter Your Message or Comment

User Name:
User Email:
Post a comment: