"Afghanistan was totally different:approved by the UN, the international community, connections between the Taliban and Al Qaeda, traning camps for Al Qaeda..."
Let's for the moment assume Afghanistan and Iraq are completely different and one can not compare them.
My point was that some people might wonder whether the war in Afghanistan is part of what you meant when you said "the war" in :
"I can't help but think those who believe the war was an obvious thing to do, have no understanding of history, human psychology, sociology, and if they're halfway around the world and not physically involved anyway, are the biggest cowards."
It's also possible that some people might think you mean the "War on Terrorism" as "the war". Now because of everything else you said and the subject of the thread itself, I'm fairly certain that you meant the war in Iraq. But I thought I would check just in case.
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- Grim milestone...
- Or
- re: Grim milestone...
- While you're crunching numbers don't forget to add in the injured.
- Don't bother Tom.
- re: Grim milestone...
- Driving up the mountain today...
- re: Grim milestone...
- "Personally, the number is 1."
- Surely you've heard of Pyrrhic victories?
- It was a fair question
- Wait wait wait...hold on there.
- If that strawman was any bigger, I could take it to the Burning Man festival.
- For Tom the loss of life and wealth is not the issue...
- re: For R.L. and others the war is not the issue...
- "The Iraqi civilian dead over the past three years is STILL far less than the average killed annually by Saddam over his regime, "
- WHAT BS
- does that annual average include the Iraq-Iran war and the gassing of the Kurds? (n/t)
- Nice try, but I can see the boilerplate response a mile away. (n/t)
- re: For R.L. and others the war is not the issue...
- re: For R.L. and others the war is not the issue...
- avoiding the question
- Really? How?
- "Personally, the number is 1."
- It shows that our strategy is faulted.
