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2006-09-26 Fifth Column

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Posted by Nimble Spemble 2006-09-26 08:02|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Funny, no mention of the lives they saved or mission they were accomplishing....oh, never mind.

Posted by Captain America 2006-09-26 09:13|| 2006-09-26 09:13|| Front Page Top

#2 At last count, 624,511 Americans died in the American Civil War. Sometimes more than 2,701 per hour. The cause was the same, except we fought to free slaves then, now we fight to keep from becoming slaves.

Posted by wxjames 2006-09-26 09:43|| 2006-09-26 09:43|| Front Page Top

#3 I believe the number was something in the order of 6000 killed in the first 24 hours of the assault on Okinawa. Body counts mean nothing. I'd also like to see the number of islamofascists killed or captured since March 2003. That would be something that could be used to judge the effectiveness of US forces, so that number is taboo to the msm.

Posted by Old Patriot">Old Patriot 2006-09-26 10:15|| http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/]">[http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/] 2006-09-26 10:15|| Front Page Top

#4 We've lost about the same number of Americans in hostile action in Iraq so far as we've lost in recreational boating accidents during the same period. Which is about the same number who die on our highways in just 3 weeks.

But the AP doesn't point that out, of course...

Posted by Dave D.">Dave D. 2006-09-26 10:51|| 2006-09-26 10:51|| Front Page Top

#5 I just hope the price being paid will be worth it in the end. The butcher's bill for fighting with a fowled house-to-house MOUT TTP, the buggered up ROE, all done with one hand tied behind your back is just terrible.

Posted by Besoeker 2006-09-26 10:58|| 2006-09-26 10:58|| Front Page Top

#6 It was 26 years ago this month that Saddam started the Iran-Iraq War that cost one million casualties.
ONE MILLION.

Posted by Darrell 2006-09-26 11:22|| 2006-09-26 11:22|| Front Page Top

#7 * Approximate number of Federal and Confederate KIA at Antietam, from dawn until noon: 6,300

* US dead 7 Dec 41: 2,403

* US Dead Iwo Jima: 6,503

* US Dead Vietnam 1961-65: 1,864

Those are numbers the MSM will never use, bcause it puts things into perspective. That and they know what will happen if a veteran of WWII or 'Nam ever saw them diminish the sacrifices they made.

Mike

Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2006-09-26 11:28|| 2006-09-26 11:28|| Front Page Top

#8 MSM perspective is the distance of the radius of the period at the end of this sentence. Or maybe shorter, depending on the headline writer.

Posted by Theth Shert5493 2006-09-26 17:42|| 2006-09-26 17:42|| Front Page Top

#9 So the US death toll finally exceeds those of the June 6, 1944 D-Day losses on the beaches of Normandy (we're not including the airborne's casualties). Note the Normandy losses occurred in a span of about 12 hours of intense fighting.

Our losses in Iraq, after 3 years and five months, have only recently edged out the D-Day death toll.

If the nation's elites are unwilling to support a war against Islamist, nilhilistic religious fanatics, then let them suffer the consequences of inaction and appeasement. Remember, the Jihadis have their sites aimed at two overwhelmingly BLUE cities, i.e., New York and Washington, D.C. All the liberalism in the world will not spare these two bastions of Bluedom.

Posted by Lancasters Over Dresden 2006-09-26 20:39|| http://www.michaelcalderonscall.com/HomePage.asp]">[http://www.michaelcalderonscall.com/HomePage.asp] 2006-09-26 20:39|| Front Page Top

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