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2006-07-29 Fifth Column

Hagel calls Iraq 'an absolute replay of Vietnam'

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Posted by Anonymoose 2006-07-29 14:27|| || Front Page|| [4 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Article: They followed a speech on the Middle East that Hagel delivered at the Brookings Institution.

Hagel is delivering speeches at liberal think tanks. Great. He must be "growing" in office - growing liberal, that is.

Posted by Zhang Fei 2006-07-29 14:53|| http://timurileng.blogspot.com]">[http://timurileng.blogspot.com] 2006-07-29 14:53|| Front Page Top

#2 Hagel finished growing a long time ago. How he keeps getting re-elected is the mystery. A donk could probably run to his right and still be acceptable to Kos.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2006-07-29 14:57|| 2006-07-29 14:57|| Front Page Top

#3 Viet Nam US KIA
1966-I 1403
1966-II 1970
1967-I 2566
1967-II 2807
1968-I 3111
1968-II 3221
1969-I 3243
1969-II 3006
1970-I 2653
1970-II 2258
1971-I 1682
1971-II 1185

Deaths of draftees as a fraction of the total: 30.4%

IOF KIA:
2003-II 280
2004-I 376
2004-II 472
2005-I 410
2005-II 436
2006-I 354

Deaths of draftees as a function of the total: 0.00000%

Yeah, an absolute replay. Anybody'd be indifferent between the 2 cases.

Posted by Perfesser 2006-07-29 15:11|| 2006-07-29 15:11|| Front Page Top

#4 Memo to Hagel: the number of Americans killed each year so far in Iraq is about the same as the number of Americans killed each year in recreational boating accidents.

If you can't grow a brain, you useless twit, at least grow a goddamn spine and quit bitching about "Vietnam"!

Posted by Dave D.">Dave D. 2006-07-29 15:22|| 2006-07-29 15:22|| Front Page Top

#5 DD: Memo to Hagel: the number of Americans killed each year so far in Iraq is about the same as the number of Americans killed each year in recreational boating accidents.

Actually, the total number of Americans killed in Iraq so far is also less than the number of Americans killed in a single day one sunny September morning. On 9/11.

Posted by Zhang Fei 2006-07-29 15:53|| http://timurileng.blogspot.com]">[http://timurileng.blogspot.com] 2006-07-29 15:53|| Front Page Top

#6 Yup. And the Iraq casualties each year are about the same as one week's worth of U.S. highway fatalities.

And roughly 2X the number of people who die in slip 'n fall accidents.

Yet useless idiots like Hagel feed the panic.

Someday, the cowardice and stupidity of people like Hagel is going to get one-- or several-- of our cities nuked.

Posted by Dave D.">Dave D. 2006-07-29 16:12|| 2006-07-29 16:12|| Front Page Top

#7 "an absolute replay of Vietnam"

The media and the Dems are sure trying to make it so.

Big lie, etc....

Posted by Barbara Skolaut">Barbara Skolaut 2006-07-29 16:46|| http://ariellestjohndesigns.com]">[http://ariellestjohndesigns.com] 2006-07-29 16:46|| Front Page Top

#8 "Justified" Motherly Communism, Totalitarianism, Dialecticism, Governmentism, OWG and Anti-SOvereignty, etc. = "STATUS QUO" FOR AMERICA = AMERIKA, FRRE AMERICA = UNITED SOCIALIST REPUBLICS ala OIL STORM. Move along, boyz, obviously no Global Communism-Socialism here - just becuz IRAN overtly-publicly proclaims to give support to anti-Israeli terror groups based in Lebanon doesn't mean they mean to hurt Israel, thus Israel is the cause and de facto raison d' etre of the "terror attacks" in its northern areas, becuz Israel is shelling and rocketing and suicidin' itself, killing and maiming its own citizens to deceive the world, like America on 9-11 to its own city!? IFF "MEGADISASTERS" ON HISTOY CHANNEL DOESN'T CONVINCE AMERICANS = AMERIKKANS, USA = USR = USSA OF THE NEED FOR OWG AND SOCIALISM, HYPER-REGULATION AND ANTI-SOVEREIGNTY, ETC. WHAT WILL, D*** IT??? HOW CAN AMERICA = AMERIKKA SAVE OR PRTECT OR DEFEND ITSELF WID OUT UNIVERSAL GOVT INTERVENTION - you know, the OWG Americans have to have, must to must, but without our leaders or the Demoleft having to explain why!? Just becuz America =Amerika is a representative democracy [for now]doesn't mean our elected leaders have to tell us = voters anything. GEEZ WHIZ, WHAT NEXT, NEXT THING YOU YOU KNOW POLS WILL BE DEMANDED TO KEEP THEIR ELEX ELECTION PROMISES-AGENDAS TO THE VOTERS. - THE HORROR, THE HORROR!

Posted by JosephMendiola 2006-07-29 22:10|| 2006-07-29 22:10|| Front Page Top

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