You're not listening. You and some others here are basically nuts on this subject. You cling to idiotic theoretical crap like the $3 trillion, and ignore what's actually going on in Iraq right now.
According to IraqBodyCount, in 2006, Coalition forces were responsible for about 600 of about 26,000 civilians killed. In 2007, Coalition forces accounted for about 1,200 of 24,000 civilians killed.
The rest were killed by the kind of people we're trying to defeat. These people will not evaporate from Iraq when we leave. The war will not end. The costs will not go away.
It's worth remembering that the war would have to go on another decade at the current civilian casualty rate to equal the number of Iraqis Saddam killed in his various wars and oppressions. I suppose that doesn't really matter anyway. The modern Left seems to believe that well-fed slavery is better than the pain of war.
I find it illuminating that your side gets even crazier about the war when things start looking better over there. But then for some it's never really been about the war, has it?
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- Iraq, $5,000 Per Second?
- "So, I have a wager for you. If no significant amounts* of WMD show up before the next election, I?ll vote for a Democrat. " - ROBVG
- re: Cheney doesn’t care about the American public’s views on the war
- And for what? (n/t)
- 4000 Americans dead, well over 30,000 Americans wounded, a total cost of ~3000 billion dollars....
- 4,000
- re: 4000 Americans dead, well over 30,000 Americans wounded, a total cost of ~3000 billion dollars....
- Your words
- Kinda convienient that we dont keep track of civilian deaths, isn't it
- Civilian deaths
- BTW, For those playing at home that makes 50,000 iraqi civillians dead just in the last 2 years as aknowledged by TB...
- "Coalition forces were responsible for about 600 of about 26,000 civilians killed. In 2007, Coalition forces accounted for about 1,200 of 24,000 civilians killed."
- Shall we also consider the millions of displaced citizens?
- Civilian deaths
- And the $3 trillion? Still crap. (n/t)
- ugh, typo