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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Sol System: [QB] Beyond that, it isn't Snopes' job to do more than say whether or not something is an urban legend. But, if you want: the problem here is that this piece articulates a ridiculous moral calculus wherein we only have to worry about a war if it is killing more soldiers than the worst war ever. It presumes that War is some sort of universal Platonic concept with only one variable: friendly soldiers killed. Yet the various wars listed were all fought under vastly different circumstances and for vastly different reasons, and in fact there was serious opposition to almost all of them. Take Bosnia, for example, which happened to have been vigorously, loudly opposed by some of the very same people championing the invasion of Iraq. (It also had some opposition from the left.) President Bush's original campaign consisted largely of pointing out how terrible an idea "nation building," as practiced in Bosnia, was. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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