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September 22, 2006
War Deaths Now More than 9/11 - Media and Democrats Plan Celebrations and News Conferences
This is going to be another snuff fest by leftists in politics and media:
Now the death toll is 9/11 times two.
U.S. military deaths from Iraq and Afghanistan now match those of the most devastating terrorist attack in America’s history, the trigger for what came next. Add casualties from chasing terrorists elsewhere in the world, and the total has passed the Sept. 11 figure.
The latest milestone for a country at war comes without commemoration. It also may well come without the precision of knowing who is the 2,973rd man or woman of arms to die in conflict in Iraq and Afghanistan, or just when it happens. The terrorist attacks killed 2,973 victims in New York, Washington and Pennsylvania.
Commemoration? Of course there won't be because this is no "milestone" and it is utterly insignificant. The last person that died in Iraq or Afghanistan is just as precious as the person that died before. They all are.
And why is it that the Democrats and leftist media are always trying to INVENT fake anniversaries and milestones to celebrate and use to BASH BUSH? Bush discusses the War on Terror/Islamic Naziism on--of all dates--9/11 and they go insane.
But let's look at all the manufactured milestones the Dems use to their political ends:
- The first broken toe in Afghanistan
- The first death in Afghanistan
- The first 50 deaths in Afghanistan
- The first hangnail in Iraq
- The first death in Iraq
- The first 100 deaths in Iraq
- The first death since "Mission Accomplished"
- The first 100 deaths since "Mission Accomplished"
- The first 500 deaths in Iraq
- The first 500 deaths since "Mission Accomplished"
- The first 1000 deaths in Iraq
- The first death since Saddam's capture
- The first 100 deaths since Saddam's capture
- The first 1000 deaths since "Mission Accomplished"
- The first death since the transfer of sovereignty
- The first 1500 deaths in Iraq
- The first 200 deaths in Afghanistan
- The first 1500 deaths since "Mission Accomplished"
- The first 100 deaths since the transfer of sovereignty
- The first 2000 deaths in Iraq
- The first 2000 deaths since "Mission Accomplished"
- The first 2500 deaths in Iraq
- The one year anniversary since going into Afghanistan
- The one year anniversary since going into Iraq
- The second year anniversary since going into Afghanistan
- The second year anniversary since going into Iraq
- The first carbomb since the first Iraqi election
- The first 100 deaths since the ratification of the Iraqi constitution
- The day we were in Afghanistan longer than the Seminoles War
- The day we were in Afghanistan longer than WWI
- The first 100 deaths since Valerie Plame's name was leaked to the media.
- The day we were in Iraq longer than Barbary Wars
- The day we were in Iraq longer than the War of 1812
- The first 1000 deaths since Bush's "16 Words" at the 2003 State of the Union Address
- The day we were in Afghanistan longer than the Korean War
- The day we were in Iraq longer than the Korean War
- The day we were in Iraq longer than the War between the States
- And now we have the number of deaths in Iraq AND Afghanistan equaling the number of deaths on 9/11.
- Then we will have the milestone of the number of deaths in Iraq ALONE equaling the number of deaths on 9/11.
But all of these milestones are SOPHISTRY, utterly meaningless and historically vacant.
We lost @3,000 deaths at Pearl Harbor and went on to lose almost 0.5 million in the four years after. We've lost 1/2 of one percent of that since 9/11.
Posted by Aaron at September 22, 2006 08:15 PM
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Comments
What's so signficant about a milestone? Isn't that utterly insignificant as well, except as people imagine it? What is a mile, anyway?
Posted by: paul at September 22, 2006 09:31 PM
touche!
Posted by: aaron at September 22, 2006 11:04 PM