4000

[BuxGuy]

It's over 7,000 dead if you choose to remember the 3,000 civilians killed by the MoFo cowards at the WTC.

[tom4bren]

As compared to the six figure death toll from genocide prior to us going in...

[indifferent drummer]

4000 deaths is a horror. But there are economic costs that are crippling our nation.
When Clinton left office, the US had a half a trillion dollars in the bank. That surplus is gone now. The war has cost anywhere from 3 to 7 trillion dollars (with no end in sight if McCain wins).
How can one put those numbers into perspective?
Suppose someone were to give you a dollar every second. Would you want them to stop at a million, a billion or a trillion?
A million seconds will pass in 12 days.
A billion seconds will pass in 32 years.
A trillion seconds will pass in 32,000 years.
So what we have spent so far would take at least 100,000 years just to count.

I read where the cost of the Iraqi war is $40,000 for each American family. I'd rather that money go to the victims of Katrina.

[Chopper]

It's over 7,000 dead if you choose to remember the 3,000 civilians killed by the MoFo cowards at the WTC.

Wrong war

[JHarris1385]

To those that 100% oppose that war.....do not read, do not listen and do not care to know the facts.....

Advice: grow some common sense..... And then and maybe just then we can have a political debate on an Isuzu VehiCROSS forum....

[tom4bren]

"To those that 100% oppose that war.....do not read, do not listen and do not care to know the facts....."

Agreed.

Our justification for going in may have been based on intelligence that was eventually proven wrong (WMDs). Saddam took perverse pride in admitting that he duped the US into believing that he had massive quantities of them. He just used them up before we got there.

We may not have efficiently trained the Iraq military to take over soon enough.

We should be using Iraq profits from their oil to pay for the rebuilding (of course that in itself would be a dam if you do ... dam if you don't proposition).

The place is a terrorism hot bed and the guy was a monster so I think the war was justified. We should have gone in sooner to stop most of the genocide.

[Mark B]

I saw that in the paper this morning.
How many permanently injured?
When is this war going to stop?

[nfpgasmask]

And don't forget about the countless animals, and all the environmental destruction and pollution the war has caused. They barely ever talk about these things...

Bart

[Joe_Black]

We've got enough problems at home to worry about fixing those outside our borders. The US should adopt an isolationist policy more extreme than that which we enjoyed prior to WWII and focus our energies internally, utilizing the military to secure our borders and coastlines. Once our economy and military stays here you'll see a radical shift in anti-US sentiment.

Will it happen? Will ANY change happen? Maybe after the next Revolution.

[BuxGuy]

Wrong war

Right war, right time, right cause.

Oh, and look, not another single attack on American soil in 5 years.