Troope Deaths Double in Afghanistan

[Jonah]

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20100327/D9EN48U80.html

God Bless Our Troops, but where are all those impassioned War Protesters now? Considering they detest War so much.

[THE PROFIT]

Double the first 2 months of this year compared to the first 2 months of last year.

Your headline makes it sound much worse

Ever thought about working in the media? You have the deceptive spin part down pretty good

[Jonah]

Injuries are way up too. Yes, it is from this time last year...Just saying I used to have a certain amount of respect for War Protesters, but that is gone now...And yes, I know there is a typo with my title before anyone mentions it. Mods: a little help?

[pavyracer]

It's the law of averages. If you double the number of troops in Afghanistan from last year and begin offensive operations guess what will happen?

[THE PROFIT]

Does that show with Jonah in it come on anymore? I kinda liked it.

Puck you miss! What, I said Puck

[THE PROFIT]

It's the law of averages. If you double the number of troops in Afghanistan from last year and begin offensive operations guess what will happen?

That's exactly what i was gonna say, but I figured it went without saying

[wtf]

wow

imagine if bush doubled the troops in afghanistan, then it is a dumb idea

but since obama does it, it must be ok

[Jonah]

It's the law of averages. If you double the number of troops in Afghanistan from last year and begin offensive operations guess what will happen?

The numbers post "surge" in Iraq greatly disproves that, but your false rationale is neither here, nor there."

Bottom line: The Wars continue, deaths and injuries are on the rise and crickets is all I'm hearing from those that acted as if "The War" was the real issue that was so near and dear to their heart.

[Jonah]

That's exactly what i was gonna say, but I figured it went without saying

Genius minds think alike, I guess. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv...mble/timeline/

[THE PROFIT]

wow

imagine if bush doubled the troops in afghanistan, then it is a dumb idea

but since obama does it, it must be ok

Bush didnt double the troops in Afghan, he did in Iraq. Which was a good idea, because once you start a war you must finish or withdraw. The thing that GW did that was so fukin stupid was start a war in Iraq for no reason after starting a war in Afghan & pulling the resources from it. So now we have 2 wars going, without proper resources, & 1 of them completely needless. Thank you Bush

[Naz18]

Most people protested the war in Iraq because it was a war based on lies and "misinformation". No WMD and no link to Al qaeda..

[pavyracer]

The numbers post "surge" in Iraq greatly disproves that, but your false rationale is neither here, nor there."

Bottom line: The Wars continue, deaths and injuries are on the rise and crickets is all I'm hearing from those that acted as if "The War" was the real issue that was so near and dear to their heart.

Your post was regarding the Afghanistan war so I responded to that comment. But since you mentioned Iraq the mistake there was we got involved in a civil war and the 100 actual casualties of the 3 weeks war that toppled Saddam Hussein ended up costing 5,000 more additional US lives where we could have left and let the motherfukkers kill each other (Sunnis, Shiites and Kurds) instead of killing US servicemen.

[Naz18]

wow imagine if bush doubled the troops in afghanistan, then it is a dumb idea but since obama does it, it must be ok

It's only dumb when your trying to spread democracy....it's ok when your fighting the taliban...

[Jonah]

Your post was regarding the Afghanistan war so I responded to that comment. But since you mentioned Iraq the mistake there was we got involved in a civil war and the 100 actual casualties of the 3 weeks war that toppled Saddam Hussein ended up costing 5,000 more additional US lives where we could have left and let the motherfukkers kill each other (Sunnis, Shiites and Kurds) instead of killing US servicemen.

Pavy, I do not totally disagree with your assessment of the mistakes made in Iraq...However, while my counter argument was made about Iraq, there is no doubt your comment was of the blanket - like, this is totally obvious - variety due to the increase in troop levels...

Again, not trying to win points here and don't think you are an idiot or anything for saying what you said. Just don't try to rewrite history.

It's the law of averages. If you double the number of troops in Afghanistan from last year and begin offensive operations guess what will happen?

[pavyracer]

I served in the military and I can assure you if you double the number of troops on the ground the probability of having more casualties once operations start increases. This is why I don't understand your point made about increased casualties in Afghanistan.

[Jonah]

Fair enough...I won't hammer you on the point because you might be right in certain respects, but you have to admit additional troops sometimes means a greater chance at domination as in, aint nobody(or far less) getting hurt.

And I always can stand to be educated on certain matters...which was the main thrust of my post, as I am just a lost boy trying make sense of the world I live in...I get that a lot of people did not want to START a war in Iraq. Bush's fault. Granted. But even on the heels of 9/11, there were a good deal of people protesting our plight into Afghanistan to begin with.

Also, regardless of who started the war, if you hate war so much, you can still protest to stop the on-going killing and occupation...They did this all throughout the Vietnam War, did they not?

I was inspired by these Anti-war protesters for they seemed to value all human life a great deal...Now I am crushed as they have disappeared. I guess there is no Santa Claus.