Yonivore
09-08-2004, 10:20 AM
The latest headlines all over the various media outlets is that the United States has now sustained 1,000 soldier deaths in Iraq.
One thousand! What a huge number, right? To hear the media tell it, you would think that 1,000 U.S. troops just died yesterday. Of course, the truth is much different, but reporting the truth doesn't help defeat George W. Bush, now does it?
Operation Iraqi Freedom is now only 18 months old. In that time, we have liberated a country of 25 million people, overthrown a murderous regime and installed an interim government. We have done all of this with the loss of 1,000 troops. While every lost life is tragic, that number is lower than every single estimate that was made before the war. There were talking heads predicting a loss of 10,000 U.S. lives during the invasion alone. So we're supposed to believe that after a year and a half, only 1,000 is somehow a failure? I don't think so.
Then you have these idiots comparing Iraq to Vietnam which shows their stupidity. 58,000 lives lost over the course of a decade is not the same thing as Iraq. Besides, we've won the war in Iraq by every measure of success.
But really, this has nothing to do with casualties, the war in Iraq, or Bush's handling of it. This is just the media following their template, running stories that hurt Bush in the hopes of electing Kerry to the Oval Office.
One thousand! What a huge number, right? To hear the media tell it, you would think that 1,000 U.S. troops just died yesterday. Of course, the truth is much different, but reporting the truth doesn't help defeat George W. Bush, now does it?
Operation Iraqi Freedom is now only 18 months old. In that time, we have liberated a country of 25 million people, overthrown a murderous regime and installed an interim government. We have done all of this with the loss of 1,000 troops. While every lost life is tragic, that number is lower than every single estimate that was made before the war. There were talking heads predicting a loss of 10,000 U.S. lives during the invasion alone. So we're supposed to believe that after a year and a half, only 1,000 is somehow a failure? I don't think so.
Then you have these idiots comparing Iraq to Vietnam which shows their stupidity. 58,000 lives lost over the course of a decade is not the same thing as Iraq. Besides, we've won the war in Iraq by every measure of success.
But really, this has nothing to do with casualties, the war in Iraq, or Bush's handling of it. This is just the media following their template, running stories that hurt Bush in the hopes of electing Kerry to the Oval Office.