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73,000 u.s troops died in gulf war (so far)

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Created by theDoctor > 9 months ago, 27 May 2011
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theDoctor
NSW, 5786 posts
27 May 2011 7:35AM
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http://www.federaljack.com/?p=22683

and well over three quarters of a million iraqi's

mmmm, I'd just like to take this moment to personally thank the baby lord jesus christ for saving my soul and protecting my freedoms from those awful awful weapons of mass destruction and the villanous criminal mastermind obama, er, i mean osama bin laden.

bjw
QLD, 3691 posts
27 May 2011 9:15AM
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An arguably arguable topic.

We should discuss this discussion.

choco
SA, 4187 posts
27 May 2011 8:54AM
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theDoctor said...


www.federaljack.com/?p=22683

and well over three quarters of a million iraqi's

mmmm, I'd just like to take this moment to personally thank the baby lord jesus christ for saving my soul and protecting my freedoms from those awful awful weapons of mass destruction and the villanous criminal mastermind obama, er, i mean osama bin laden.


The US must be disgusted at killing over 3 quarter of a million Iraqi's, time the US invaded themselves.
They go on about how many Innocent people died in 911 but obviously American lives mean more than the Iraqi people, you get what you reap.

bjw
QLD, 3691 posts
27 May 2011 9:41AM
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[b] time the US invaded themselves.

They go on about how many Innocent people died in 911 but obviously American lives mean more than the Iraqi people, you get what you reap.


Last time they invaded themselves 620,000 of there own people died, but not one Iraqi died.

wiki.answers.com/Q/How_many_people_died_in_the_US_Civil_War

Richiefish
QLD, 5612 posts
27 May 2011 10:20AM
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big difference between killing office workers and killing crazy fanatics with machine guns.

Trant
NSW, 601 posts
27 May 2011 10:20AM
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theDoctor said...


www.federaljack.com/?p=22683

and well over three quarters of a million iraqi's

mmmm, I'd just like to take this moment to personally thank the baby lord jesus christ for saving my soul and protecting my freedoms from those awful awful weapons of mass destruction and the villanous criminal mastermind obama, er, i mean osama bin laden.


I took the 5 minutes to read the source pdf file that they listed.

1) This is talking about the 1991-1992 Gulf War
2) 17,500 troops who were deployed to that war, have since died. It doesn't mention what they died of or where, it could have been in a car accident in 2003.
3) 53,000 troops who were in the armed forces at the time, but were NEVER deployed to the war have since died of various causes.

Why the linked website added these figures together and said that this was the casualty total from the war is beyond me. Part of the source report actually goes into detail about how the death rate amongst 'never deployed' veterans is about the same as deployed veterans.

Now I'm not saying the report is wrong, or the original website is wrong, but the linked website is definitely misreading its sources and claiming facts which don't exist.

petermac33
WA, 6415 posts
27 May 2011 8:28AM
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6 months or so before Obama became president,he is on record as saying if i win office i will withdraw the troops from Afghanistan.

in office he does the exact opposite,he increases the number significantly.

in other words we don't have a choice,vote for Bush you get war,vote for Obama you get war.

doggie
WA, 15849 posts
27 May 2011 8:35AM
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petermac33 said...

6 months or so before Obama became president,he is on record as saying if i win office i will withdraw the troops from Afghanistan.

in office he does the exact opposite,he increases the number significantly.

in other words we don't have a choice,vote for Bush you get war,vote for Obama you get war.




How the hell else is a black man going to get into power, jeez dont you know anything?

Prawnhead
NSW, 1317 posts
27 May 2011 3:17PM
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WTF are we (AUS)doing in Afghanistan (24 good australians too many)
Every maurauding conqueror of the past 2000(alexander the great,genghis khan etc) years has eventually been shown the door by primarily, experienced bunch/bunches/collectives /tribes , of stick waving, stone throwing and now AK47 welding goat herders and opium growers..who when they haven't been busy repelling invaders have been more than happy to keep the excitment levels up by conducting a multitude of civil/tribal wars
for those that that adopt the Humanitarian approach of saving the general populace from the taliban this would of been a much better solution via a couple of low level runs with B52's


(no not nuking them )
costofwar.com/en/
(pallets of green backs in the back of the B52 and maybe some Mcdonalds franchises with a few i-pods and couple of beiber CD's thrown in)
if only they had shown them the money (and the education)

GreenPat
QLD, 4107 posts
27 May 2011 3:27PM
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Today's forecast is cloudy, with a hint of politics and religion already, degenerating into all sorts of un-fun stuff later in the thread...



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