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Quote by: BugsBunny WTF, mate? |
Here's what the fck, Mate. Our troops in Iraq are fighting a foreign enemy in a foreign land. If Americans decide they don't like the way things are going, we can simply pull out and go home.
In Vietnam we fought for almost 10 years, losing 58,000 troops. The Vietnamese, fighting for their homeland, lost a million combatants and 4 million civilians dead. Americans eventually tired of the war, so we pulled out and went home.
In Afghanistan, the Soviets fought for another 10 years, losing 15,000. The Afghanis, fighting for their homeland, lost over a million dead and two million displaced.
Troops fighting here will be fighting for their own country on their own turf. They can't simply pull out and go home. They
are home. During the American Civil War as a base, 600,000 died out of a U.S. population of 30 million. So out of our current 300 million Americans, that would be about
6 million casualties... not including civilian non-combatants.
The Lebanese fought their civil war for 15 years, and out of a population of 2 million, 100,000 died and a million displaced. Almost 5% of the Lebanese population dead.
5% of Americans 300 million is
15 million dead.
Take your pick.
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