This Week: In Memoriam
This Week with George Stephanopoulos notes the passings of former Florida Senator Paula Hawkins, banking executive and junk bond king Fred Joseph and actor and D-Day at Normandy veteran Richard Todd. In addition, the Pentagon released the names of five servicemembers killed in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Army PFC Michael A Rogers, 23, of White Sulphur Springs, MT
Navy PO3 David M Mudge, 22, of Sutherlin, OR
Army PFC Derrick D Gwaltney, 21, of Cape Coral, FL
Marine LCpl Jonathan A Taylor, 22, of Jacksonville, FL
Army SGT Kenneth R Nichols Jr, 28, of Chrisman, IL
According to iCasualties, this brings the total number of allied soldiers killed in Iraq to 4,685; in Afghanistan, 1,535. During this same period, Iraq Body Count lists the deaths of 39 Iraqi civilians. Sadly, there is no site that I have found listing the civilian deaths in Afghanistan, but per Wikipedia, there were 1,013 civilian deaths in Afghanistan for the first six months of this year, and it is projected to top that number for the second half.
I wish Obama had laid a windfall tax on defense contractors.
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
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I send my condolences to you. I cannot imagine the pain you are suffering.
And what for ? What F'n for ? So the profiteers can go on making money .
Only five dead, so see all you naysayers and anti-war pinkos, the Afghan Surge is already working. Obama waited eight weeks too long to make a no-brainer decision to send more troops to Afghanisnam. Come on Obama, your performance so far as Warmonger-In-Chief is abysmal.
Only 1,000 Marines are on a current sweep of Helmand Province and the Taliban are nowhere to be found having pussied out cause we are the most powerful motherfuckers on earth. Got That! Fuck, just send another 50,000 Marines and we'll be out of that shit hole by Memorial Day.
THE WARS IN IRAQ & AFGHANISTAN ARE A THE WORLD'S LONGEST RUNNING FUCKING JOKE! GET OUT NOW!
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I don't see flags all over my community at half-staff every week in honor and remembrance of these fallen men and women like I did almost a month ago for those killed at Fort Hood. Why is that? Do these deaths affect the families and communities any less? Is it any less tragic that these people were killed in unnecessary and illegal wars than if they were killed at home in an act of homicide? Is it any less a crime that these lives were lost?
Perhaps it is to maintain the cognitive dissonance. We have to pretend that they died for our "freedom", rather than by our actions, inaction or inability to stop the bloodshed done in our name and paid for with our money. In other words, as Americans, willingly or unwillingly, we killed them.
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