Who really supported troops?By DON WILLIAMS, New Millennium Writings
November 7, 2003
So just who truly supported the troops? Those who sent them to Iraq with no clear plan for bringing them home again or those who warned, don't go there, it's a quagmire?
Donald Rumsfeld once said with a wink and a grin that you can't have a quagmire in the desert - it's too dry - but if this is not a quagmire, then give me another word for it. We can't move forward, we can't back out. We pour money and human lives into it, and it only gets worse.
Six months after George W. Bush leapt from a jet plane onto an aircraft carrier and declared victory, the number of dead American soldiers accelerates towards the 400 mark. The wounded are numbered in the thousands, many with life-threatening lacerations and burns, others with mutilations they will carry to their graves.
Estimates of dead Iraqis range from a few thousand to more than 30,000 - the Pentagon pretends to have no hard numbers on the Iraqi dead - and the killing grows again with each passing week. It's hard to imagine how this war can ever end.
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