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Originally Posted by vienna
Oh, I am very glad Sadaam got taken out; it just didn't require a massive military force and the loss 3,800 coalition lives to do it. I would have been just as happy to have had it done by a single well-placed Hellfire and then all about have a pint to refresh our taste buds and toast a "Mission Accomplished"...
But, we would have been deprived of such sights as Dubbya strutting across a crrier deck looking little more than Alfred E. Newman dressed up like a G.I. Joe doll from the Island of Misfit Toys. Ah, that Dubbya: always good for a laugh (if the whole matter weren't so tragic)...
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Right, a well placed missile. If only it were that easy. Of course you'd need at least two more missiles to take out his heirs apparent, and then maybe some more missiles to take out Chemical Ali and the other big shots of the regime. Suddenly it's not that simple now is it?
Any loss of life is a terrible thing but that's the realistic cost of war, any war. As far as wars go though our losses were on the low side. This is a testament to the skill of our troops and nothing should be taken away from them in that regard.
By the way, that Mission Accomplished sign that you mention had nothing to do with Bush. It was requested for and put up by the Navy to celebrate their completion of a very long and successful combat deployment.
In wartime plenty of missions are accomplished. That has nothing to do with declaring victory. In the speech that Bush made in front of that sign he mentions several times that the war is not won yet.
But hey it gave the liberals something to point at besides their own complicity in getting that mission assigned in the first place. Casting blame on others in order to cover up their own lack of accomplishment seems to be a favorite Democrat tactic. Of course I guess they sort of have to since they never accomplish anything except to make things worse.