Five years later

[frogcycle]

Mission not accomplished.

April, 2008: highest casualty rate in six months. Here they are: April KIA


More then July '06.
More then March'06.
More then Sept '05.
More than March '05.
More than March '04.

No, the 'surge' didn't do a damned thing except get more people killed. We are no better or worse than we were four years ago; just 3925 soldiers lighter, along with 5-10 times that many with profound physical damage, and probably 100 times that scarred for life in various ways.

The politicians who try to claim it reduced violence can bite my ass. The Iraqis had about finished their ethnic cleansing anyway, were running out of targets. And the violence sure as hell isn't gone.

Oh, I forgot to mention, a once-proud nation has lost its soul.


Way over to the left, when MA occurred, there had been 140 fatalities.

[MadMaddie]

1. Didnja hear? The "Mission Accomplished" Banner

really didn't mean the war was over..:sarcasm:

[frogcycle]

2. Yeah, it meant the sailors on that ship had

successfully eaten breakfast that morning :sarcasm:

[MadMaddie]

3. It's only going to get worse....and it won't stop

until a Dem is in office.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

4. Wasn't the surge originally supposed to last only 90 days?

And that was what, about 15 months ago? I don't recall it ever being presented as a perpetual never-ending solution. But we're still turning that corner and they're still bringing it on.

[frogcycle]

5. yeah, 90 was the original number

but then they said it took longer than that to get them there - kept saying the clock didn't start until all 30,000 were there - that took six months - then that said its starting to work, so we need another six months...

[frogcycle]

6. correction

I wrote "we are no better or worse..."

That referred only to the conditions on the ground in Iraq. We as a nation, of course, are far worse off, having become financially and *morally bankrupt.

*not individual citizens, but as a nation - sorry, we have no high ground left to claim.
"They" have done horrific things, committed myriad crimes against humanity, and "We the People" are supposed to be in charge. So the nation "of the people" is guilty. It has happened on our collective watch, and far too many of us are either complicit or negligent.