I normally do not post body counts but I found this to be interesting. We have lost more Americans in the response to 9/11 than in the actual even itself.

http://edition.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/me...03/death.toll/

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But guys, you're forgetting about those tractors that were repaired. Surely it was all worth it.

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I'm tempted to say: so what ?

America lost more men fighting the Japanese from 1941 to 1945 than in the actual attack at Pearl Harbour itself, does this mean you shouldn't have bothered fighting ?

Whether or not going to Iraq was the right way to fight the war on terror is another thing altogether

Thanks for being the voice of reason on this page

and for beating me to the punch at saying the same thing

i geuss we should of just handed over our country on 9/11 and the above posters would of been happy

This is stupid.

What war did less people die than the initial attack?

I can't believe I am commenting in Iraq war thread # 15,001

they are running out of ways to criticize the war

gotta keep stretching things to make it to 20K iraqi war threads

heck dont even try to count the bush bash threads good gooodly goo

gotta be a quarter million

No, we just should have went after the ones who attacked us instead of invading Iraq, actually. Osama Bin Forgotten.

Actually we should have captured/killed him in the two chances we had PRIOR to 9/11...remember?
Yeah...everybody likes to forget that little tid-bit..we even had two jets flying behind the plane carrying him...Clinton called them off.

I'd say it's a little more serious to capture him after he actually committed crimes against our country than before, when there was no legal way to capture him.

5 years later.....WTF?

Do we start a war with Pakistan to go get him, Sam?

Matt

Reading 'Fiasco' at the moment.

Can't believe the incompentency by some in charge... Rumsfield is a sick joke...

Body count vs. body count?

What a sickening thread.

Makes no sense to quantify this way. If you want to challenge the wisdom or necessity of invading Iraq fine but bean-counting the dead is senseless.

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Right as rain, and what the naysayers fail to point out is that WW11 wasn't supposed to be a cakewalk. I still remember the weeks not months speech and the limited engagement speech. Also, Maybe I missed something but I do believe not a single hijacker was Iraqi. I guess they left that out too.
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Heard anything about Afghanistan or Yemen lately? Osama who?