The US death toll was reported as now having reached 4,000 in the war in Iraq. Why don't we recieve regular reports of the 43,000 killed in traffic accidents in the US each year? Aren't these people important also?
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Rollie
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Yes, they are just as important. With the media, the War sells. That's all the media is worried about is money. They could careless about anything else. I just don't like how many anti-war protestors were using the 4,000 men and women who have died protecting this country as a mile stone to basically say, "haha" to those who do support the war. Very unpatriotic.
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wow. that is quite interesting if you compare the 2 numbers. you know what that tells me?? We have one hell of a fighting force, and too many knuckleheads on the road careening their fiery foreign racecars into quarries, or even into ravines, only to die in a blaze alcoholism, exhaustion, or just plain stupidity. But we got warriors on the other side of the world not dying from exhaustion, stupidity, or lack of alcoholism.
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Wonder why... so many die in road side accidents? These buffoons defeated the purpose of a bomb proof car and seatbelts at the same time! God bless our troops. EDIT: Embed not working, here is the direct URL. http://myspacetv.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=30974548
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What about the over 151,000 "colatoral" deaths of Iraqi civilians (the people the war was meant to save and protect)? Are they not important either? This number is NOT of enemy combatants, but of the civilians that have been killed as a by-product of the war and were not combatants in any way.
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Yes they are important. However, doing something about that differs from the Unnecessary war in Iraq in one key way- it's the disposable Veterans who are doing the job for the Americans. If the Americans were required to actually sacrfice one iota of comfort for the War in Iraq, we'd have been done years ago. Americans are if anything, hedonistic. Nothing, absolutely, nothing will ever get Americans to start driving responsibly.
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Yes, they are important, but it is as different as night and day. With car accidents there are thousands of variables that are in some cases beyond our control. Drugs, drunks, sheer stupidity, and some are just out and out accidents. With the war we know the cause. We know the solution. The question is will we act on it. Lastly, the people dying in the war are acting on the collective behalf of our country...
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The US death toll due to the wars in the Middle East is anything but 4,000. Look on page 6 and you'll see that it's actually 74,871 (by the way, this is the last report): http://www1.va.gov/rac-gwvi/docs/GWVIS_Aug2007.pdf For the civilian death toll, check this out: Poll: Civilian Death Toll in Iraq May Top 1 Million http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/09/14/3839
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