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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Siegfried: [QB] Amazing what counts as accuracy these days. You'd be hard pressed to find anyone that defends what the U.S. did in Korea or Vietnam in the name of containing communism (especially since we reached a tenuous stalemate in one and failed in the other). Truman took a lot of heat for Korea as Johnson did for Vietnam. Nixon was elected president on a "law and order" campaign that included a "secret plan" to end the conflict in Vietnam. Comparing the Iraq conflict with World War II is ludicrous. We declared war on Germany the same day that Germany declared war on us, which was three days after we declared war on Japan. Japan was allied with German and Italy, who were engaged in war against our allies, Great Britian and France. In Iraq, we started attacking a fully-contained (for over a decade) country that (contrary to our intelligence, as we found out after taking the country) had no way whatsoever to harm its neighbors, let alone the US. Iraq wasn't allied with any country or group engaged in attacks on the US. Comparing the US casualty figures from any of these wars is ludicrous. We've lost 2,000 troops due to Iraq; the bulk of those losses have been since Bush declared the mission accomplished and the result of an entrenched resistance. How many troops did we lose in World War II, Korea, or Vietnam after the official end of hostilities? [QUOTE]In the years since terrorists attacked us, President Bush has liberated two countries, crushed the Taliban, crippled al-Qaida, put nuclear inspectors in Libya, Iran, and North Korea without firing a shot, and captured a terrorist who slaughtered 300,000 of his own people.[/QUOTE]For the record, both Iran and North Korea have resumed their nuclear power plant programs over the protests and warnings of the Bush Administration. The Taliban has not been crushed, and one can hardly call Afghanistan liberated when you consider the US only has Kabul under any sort of control. Al-Qaida is still up and running, as we've since in the time since the September 11, 2001, attacks. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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