"... Usually, there is nothing more powerful than a personal story to pound home the cost of eight years of war overseas, but I think today there is something even more disturbing to bear.
It’s the number 89,457
As of Nov. 9, that’s how many American casualties there were in Iraq and Afghanistan since Oct. 7, 2001, when the Afghan war officially began. That includes a tire-screeching 75,134 dead, wounded-in-action, and medically evacuated due to illness, disease, or injury in Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF), and 14,323 and counting in Afghanistan, or Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF).
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And there are still people out there who want to send more troops to die for OIL! OIL! OIL! and nothing else. Values such as freedom, democracy, transparency, anticorruption, are nothing but smokescreens for prosaic motives. It is a shame that young men and women from America are to die for the greed of oil companies and those who stand to benefit from them.
Oil? What oil has the US gotten from Iraq?
And Afghanistan has no oil.
What are you babbling about? Please send me the Liberal whining sheet so I can see where you are reading these prepared screeches from.
In case you have'nt heard, there is something called a pipeline that is supposed to 'bypass' Iran and link the Caspian sea to the Gulf. As to Irak, read about Peter Galbraith's interest in Kurdistan! And read about Halliburton! And also read about the oil bill passed by the Iraqi government under US occupation! And if you read a little bit about the region then you will realize that oil is that interests the US, not the culture of the region!!!!
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