1776 Dead Soldiers who needn't have died at all.

[mopaul]

we should reach this cryptic number this weekend. you'd hardly know there was a war going on.

[bluestateguy]

1. One thing that always bothers me

is how so many Americans just go about their everyday lives as if the war does not exist, and it's just a million miles away. They can tune it out on the TV and live in their own little personal world where the war does not exist at all.

Of course the families of the soldiers and Marines over there cannot do that, but it makes one ask about the fairness of the sacrifice. If I supported this war I would be outraged that there is no sense of shared sacrifice, that we are sending troops on their 2nd and 3rd tours to Iraq, while millions of other Americans who support this war are able to sit at home and go about their bourgeoisie lives.

[mopaul]

2. this ain't how you fight a war

we aren't at war at all. all hell has broken loose in the middle east but we here are not at war at all. we have no real sense of being at war even though they say it every day. 'we're at war'.

metropolis

[ladjf]

3. Horribly enough, they not only died for no good purpose, they

died for a purpose that was evil. They were duped into believing that they were serving the cause for Freedom and security for America. Perhaps if my child had been killed in Iraq, I would accepted the "patriotism" rationale just to assuage my grief.

[sweetheart]

4. they died in the extraterritorial civil war II

And in the end, when american forces lose that war, by bankrupting the
country and wiping out the empire, those soldiers will be remembered
as necessary deaths by a world thankfully released from tyrants.