“Well, there are the naysayers who complain that the war is not going so well…….
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The Cost of War: At Least 132,314 Lives Lost in Iraq
American Military Fatalities: 1,735
US Wounded: 13,074
"I have learned from first hand experience that war is the destroyer of everything that is good in the world, it turns our young into soulless killers and we tell them that they are heroes when they master the "art" of killing. ... Why do we tell our children to not solve their differences with violence, then turn around and commit the ultimate in violence against people in another country who have nothing to do with the political attitudes of their leaders?"
-- A Matter of Conscience
By Sergeant Kevin Benderman, U.S. Army
Independent Media Magazine
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“But….
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Overall, six private investment firms, including Carlyle, received nearly $14 billion in Pentagon deals between 1998 and 2003." ... "The fact that George H.W. Bush was working for them
while his son was president, while his son, in fact, was dramatically increasing defense spending — that seems to me one of the most blatant conflicts of interests in history."
http://www.publicintegrity.org/pns/report.aspx?aid=424&sid=200
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actually, I think things are going pretty well. We're workin' hard."