Reply #36: They used the exact same methodology to justify Vietnam [View All]

[Jacobin]

"Hey, this ain't so bad....we only lost 50,000 killed and 300,000 maimed. In a year we lose 50,000 on the highways! We are in Vietnam for a good reason (um, wait, I'll think of it in a minute)"

Just wait. Next they will say we need to keep troops in Iraq and spend more on the military because it would hurt the economy if we withdrew.

THAT was an actual story in Newsweek in the early 1970's to try to justify the continuation of the genocide in Vietnam.

It's only just begun and it will boggle your mind how bad these assholes are and how ghastly the thinking in this country will become.

Hanging up dead bodies like cow carcasses on TV is just the fucking beginning.

This nation is completely and absolutely craven.