outlandish
10-26-06, 01:26 PM
Is It Vietnam Yet?
By Cindy Sheehan
Unbelievably, even though my own son was killed in Iraq, I am often told that the US deaths in this young century's first conflict for profit are "negligible" compared to Vietnam, or a "drop in the bucket." I have terrible news for these reich-wing carnage confederates: Iraq is even deadlier for US forces than Vietnam. In the first 3 years 7 months of the illegal and immoral occupation of Iraq, 2,791 of our volunteer soldiers have been tragically killed, and in the first 4 years of the illegal and immoral conflict in Vietnam (which was never a "war" Constitutionally declared by Congress either), 1,864 conscripts were killed.
Full article (http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/102306M.shtml)
By Cindy Sheehan
Unbelievably, even though my own son was killed in Iraq, I am often told that the US deaths in this young century's first conflict for profit are "negligible" compared to Vietnam, or a "drop in the bucket." I have terrible news for these reich-wing carnage confederates: Iraq is even deadlier for US forces than Vietnam. In the first 3 years 7 months of the illegal and immoral occupation of Iraq, 2,791 of our volunteer soldiers have been tragically killed, and in the first 4 years of the illegal and immoral conflict in Vietnam (which was never a "war" Constitutionally declared by Congress either), 1,864 conscripts were killed.
Full article (http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/102306M.shtml)