Proteus

Crunching a few simple numbers and you get this:

Terrorist enemies of the United States took the better part of a decade to plan and execute a one time assault on US soil, resulting in American casualties totalling appoximately 0.001% of the population. Please don't interpret this as a callous dismissal of the lives lost, however it does suggest that the threat, as real as it is, is still nowhere near the sword of damocles it's often portrayed to be.



Now, if only I could find a use for all this duct tape!

mikhail

Yea this is what some people dont get it isnt a rare disease which is statistically nothing to worry about.Its random it could kill millions in a second.

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WI Crippler

Well ****, the Japanese hardly killed off any of our population either. And most of the casualties weren't even civilian, but military deaths. And the Germans, I don't think the killed many Americans either. By your "math" neither of those situations weren't as bad as they were protrayed to be either.

Secretary of Defense: Mr. President, the total dead from the attacks on the twin towers, the Pentagon, and the flight that crashed in Pennsylvania is over 3,000 people.

President: Is that all? Hell thats hardly .001% of our population. I wouldn't be too worried about it. Its no Sword of Damocles, thats for sure.

Sorry, I could not be confident in a leadership that would ascribe to your math.

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new coup for you

I think a more telling figure is that more soldiers have died needlessly in Iraq then civilians died in 9/11

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And why does your tone suggest that you do not care about children?

I want to ride my bicycle, I want to ride my bike.

WI Crippler

Its only needless, if we leave before we should. If we accomplish what we set out to do in the beginning of Operation Iraqi Freedom, then the deaths are not "needless", as you put it. Europeans aren't the only people that we should shed blood for, when they are faced with the prospect of living under brutal regimes.

Doc Howl

The deaths were needless. Our military is there to defend the republic, not to solve Iraq's problems.

And we didn't fight WWII to help France and Holland. That was a side effect.

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new coup for you

FREEDOM! FREEDOM! FREEDOM!


look how free THIS guy looks!

of course that's totally atypical.

all the other Iraqis are FREELY huddling in their ruined houses that have been FREEDOMED to **** terrified of the FREEDOM militia's we unwittingly released WHEN WE LET EVERYONE FREE.

Stop think you know what's better for other countries.

Republicans: The government never knows best, unless it's doing it to foreigners.

You'd trust a government to FREE a society and remake it but not to run healthcare.

DeeJayH

yeah only 1 strike

pay no attention to 3/11, etc....

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WI Crippler

We either believe in the values of liberty and freedom, and believe that they apply to all human beings, or we don't believe in it at all. You cannot believe in the ideal of liberty, and think it only applies to a select few. Whatever we do to help foster that ideal around the world, I support. Up to and including military action against those who oppose those ideals.

Lachean

You're wasting your breath, when it comes to the philosphy of liberty NCFY believes that, "The rest of the political world has progressed past 1800."

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