Re: Coalition casualties for November

"John Mullen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> Ivan Grozny wrote:
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> > "George" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> >>[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael Petukhov) wrote in message
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> > news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
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> >>>http://www1.iraqwar.ru/iraq-read_article.php?articleId=27848&lang=en
> >>>
> >>>Coalition servicemen killed in the war against Iraq:
> >>>
> >>>Total announced as of 1st of December: 518 (441 US, 53 UK, 1 Denmark,
> >>>10 Spain, 1 Ukraine, 1 Poland, 18 Italia)
> >>
> >>While you're at it....
> >>Got the figures there for Russian troops killed in Chechnya?
> >>Oh and do you have the numbers of Russian troops killed in Afghanistan
> >>during that action?
> >>One could then run a comparison.
> >>But you don't have those numbers do you.
> >>You are just another anti-American stooge with a highly selective view
> >
> >
> > He also forgot to post that 3-4 million of those tough Soviet fighters
were
> > taken as POWs before the end of 41. He forgot post that 24 million
Soviets
> > died in WWII (many killed by the Soviets themselves), untold millions in
the
> > Soviet slave labor camps, thousands of Russian slave laborers died
building
> > St. Petersburg, thousands died at the hands of Inan's Oprichniki and on
and
> > on and on.
> >
> > Only a relatively small number of Soviets died in
Afghanistan....something
> > like 30-40 thousand. But then again they were killing mostly women and
> > chidren.
> > Over one million Afghanis died.
>
> Rather like the US in Vietnam then?
>
> John
>

There is one fatal flaw in that argument. The US did not invade the North.
The North invaded the South. America was merely trying to prevent the North
from violently imposing their politics on the South. So if the invaders were
killed, so be it. Beyond that, if you still have a problem, dig Lyndon
Johnson up and kick the corpse. He is the one responsible for needlessly
dragging out the conflict. Had Johnson acted as decisively as Nixon, many
lives would have been saved. Johnson was a coward and both Viets and
Americans died because of that.

Johnson and Mc Namara should have both been tried for treason.