[Dems2008] Re: VietNam

The toll on human beings goes without saying.

S

In Dems2008@yahoogroups.com, "citation502" <citation502@...> wrote:
>
>
> Sandra, in part (but only in part) it is about the alterantive
costs,
> i.e., the much-better purposes to which we could put the TWELVE
BILLION
> DOLLARS a month that we are flushing down a rathole in Iraw.
>
> But it's also (in part) about lives being wasted: not just our
> soldiers, but the impact on theri families and the dislocations of
> hundreds of thousands of Iraqis (they're people too).
>
> BUT I'm not suggesting that it is only about levees and bridges and
> money for healthcare here. There ARE legitimate reasons, in certain
> circumstances, to go to war: but Iraq and VietNam just were not
two
> of them.
>
>
> --- In Dems2008@yahoogroups.com, "Sandra Goodwin" <bridger82923@>
> wrote:
> >
> > ---Isn't it about the money? Money that could be spent here
building
> > bridges, fixing levees, roads, jobs.
> > Sandra
> >
> > In Dems2008@yahoogroups.com, "citation502" citation502@ wrote:
> > >
> > > occurs to me to observe that while the VietNam War was equally a
> > stupid
> > > and wrong war, at least it had a logical premise. This nonsense
in
> > > Iraq lacks even a logical premise; hence, the administration has
> > > changed its reason for the war about six times.
> > >
> > > I even heard a Bush lover tell me that the reason we are in
Iraq is
> > for
> > > the Kurds. Good Jesus!!!!!!!
> > >
> >
>

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