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whitepants
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edited March 2008 in A Moving Train
Four thousand American service men and women have died in the illegal invasion/war in Iraq just passing the 5 year anniversary.

How many more will die?
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  • Byrnzie
    Byrnzie Posts: 21,037
    whitepants wrote:
    Four thousand American service men and women have died in the illegal invasion/war in Iraq just passing the 5 year anniversary.

    How many more will die?

    Probably a lot more. Not as many as the amount of Iraqis that have died thus far though.
  • LikeAnOcean
    LikeAnOcean Posts: 7,718
    whitepants wrote:
    Four thousand American service men and women have died in the illegal invasion/war in Iraq just passing the 5 year anniversary.

    How many more will die?
    Sure it was wrong, but what makes war "illegal". Is there a universal law somewhere and who enforces it?
  • whitepants
    whitepants Posts: 729
    Show me a legal war.
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  • LikeAnOcean
    LikeAnOcean Posts: 7,718
    whitepants wrote:
    Show me a legal war.
    Laws are written by people. They are set of rules by a society.. When societies clash in war, there is no authority that writes laws that are above and govern both societies.
  • macgyver06
    macgyver06 Posts: 2,500
    LikeAnOcean wrote:
    Sure it was wrong, but what makes war "illegal". Is there a universal law somewhere and who enforces it?


    no but its like me setting fort in your living room and refusing to leave... while i drink alll your precious precious milk and kill your pets... you know... to liberate future pets you dictating bastard!


    ahh when the citizens realize we are stealing the key ingredient to the success of their future.... they will KILL ALL AMERICAN SOLDIERS THERE


    and the gov't knows this and they dont care....


    your soldiers arent coming home.


    Good Riddance!
  • tybird
    tybird Posts: 17,388
    whitepants wrote:
    Four thousand American service men and women have died in the illegal invasion/war in Iraq just passing the 5 year anniversary.

    How many more will die?
    You should have said invasion/war/occupation.
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  • Restless Soul
    Restless Soul Posts: 805
    LikeAnOcean wrote:
    Sure it was wrong, but what makes war "illegal". Is there a universal law somewhere and who enforces it?


    I'm not sure what you mean by a "universal law" but I think you have forgotten about the UN resolutions against invasion against Iraq which bush and blair chose to ignore? That's what makes this war illegal.
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  • Abookamongstthemany
    Abookamongstthemany Posts: 8,209
    whitepants wrote:
    Four thousand American service men and women have died in the illegal invasion/war in Iraq just passing the 5 year anniversary.

    How many more will die?


    Unfortunately with all this politicing that has everyone sold....a lot more will continue to needlessly die. :(
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  • SilverSeed
    SilverSeed Posts: 336
    whitepants wrote:
    Four thousand American service men and women have died in the illegal invasion/war in Iraq just passing the 5 year anniversary.

    How many more will die?

    Didn't you hear? This war is to keep us safe. Without it, how many MORE Americans could Iraqis have killed? Wait, Sadaam was responsible for 9/11 right?

    Oi... Anyone want to move to Costa Rica with me?
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  • ledvedderman
    ledvedderman Posts: 7,762
    "The president carries the biggest burden, obviously," Cheney said.

    http://abcnews.go.com/WN/Politics/story?id=4513250&page=1


    What a fucking douchebag
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  • Commy
    Commy Posts: 4,984
    LikeAnOcean wrote:
    Laws are written by people. They are set of rules by a society.. When societies clash in war, there is no authority that writes laws that are above and govern both societies.
    And that is exactly why the UN is relevant.
  • Thorns2010
    Thorns2010 Posts: 2,201
    I've wondered this for a while now, maybe some here knows.

    My brother works for the Army Core of Engineers. And for some crazy reason he volunteered to go work in Iraqi for 6 months.

    Anyway, if something were to happen to him (which I doubt will, but you never know) does he count towards the Military causality total? And if not, then what is the number of Americans, not just soldiers that have died over there?
  • stupidcorporatewhore
    stupidcorporatewhore Posts: 761
    LikeAnOcean wrote:
    Sure it was wrong, but what makes war "illegal". Is there a universal law somewhere and who enforces it?

    bush never got a war resolution for iraq, he just tacked it on to Afghanistan. He also made a falsified case.

    If a soldier is wounded in Iraq and airlifted to germany and dies in a hospital there it's not registered as an Iraq casuality.
  • Spunkie
    Spunkie i come from downtown. Posts: 7,095
    whitepants wrote:
    Four thousand American service men and women have died in the illegal invasion/war in Iraq just passing the 5 year anniversary.

    How many more will die?

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  • robbie
    robbie Posts: 883
    "bring it on"..........................
  • Byrnzie
    Byrnzie Posts: 21,037
    LikeAnOcean wrote:
    Sure it was wrong, but what makes war "illegal". Is there a universal law somewhere and who enforces it?

    Ever heard of the United Nations Security Council?
  • Cosmo
    Cosmo Posts: 12,225
    I remember this little story:
    http://www.littleleague.org/media/whitman_memorial.asp
    ...
    It's about a Baseball Little League in Whitman, Mass. They wanted to honour the fallen soldiers in the Iraq War by writing the names of the war dead on a baseball and placing it in a wall behind the backstop at homeplate. They had originally built a wall that would hold 900 baseballs and by October of 2005, the number was 1,400.
    I thought it was a nice story because I like baseball and I like our military.
    ...
    I wonder what that wall looks like today. They needed to add 2,600 more baseballs to the wall... 2,600 more name to write... 2,600 more people they know are not coming back home. I also wonder about those kids. If they were 13 when the wall began... they are 18 now. I wonder if they still go tohe the park an look at the wall. I wonder if they wonder... how many more baseballs will we need?
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  • unsung
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    There was a guy on the news this morning on the way in who said the last soldier who will die in Iraq hasn't had his parents born yet. We are going to be there for a long time no matter what any politician says.
  • Cosmo
    Cosmo Posts: 12,225
    unsung wrote:
    There was a guy on the news this morning on the way in who said the last soldier who will die in Iraq hasn't had his parents born yet. We are going to be there for a long time no matter what any politician says.
    ...
    So... does this mean that Colin Powell was correct... we actually bought Iraq?
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  • g under p
    g under p Surfing The far side of THE Sombrero Galaxy Posts: 18,237
    unsung wrote:
    There was a guy on the news this morning on the way in who said the last soldier who will die in Iraq hasn't had his parents born yet. We are going to be there for a long time no matter what any politician says.

    This is true, In one form or another we are going to be there for a long long time. it matters not what the politicians are saying the permanent bases will be there and so will soldiers to protect, therefore soldiers will surely die.

    SADLY, The animosity towards this country will NOT dissipate any time soon.

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