Were the last 7 days the most bloody of the "postwar" for our troops?

frank frankly

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Mon Oct-13-03 11:08 PM
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Were the last 7 days the most bloody of the "postwar" for our troops?

It seems like there have been a lot of "3 Soldiers Dead Today" reports lately.

But, of course, no headlines. I walk around and see people and I want to shake them and say, "How Can't You Be Affected?--We Are At War!"

Did people sleepwalk through Vietnam, too?

We have to end this occupation. How can we without the media?

At least, thanks to DU, I can comunicate with those who see this for what it is--a terrible geopolitical, moral and metaphysical, disaster for the human race.

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Cha

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Mon Oct-13-03 11:15 PM
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1. I guess but was some what of a "sleepwalker" myself during

Vietnam..I wasn't out protesting but home having babies and the father of my children did not have to go..

I don't want it to get anywhere like Vietnam for our Country to say "Enough" ..time to get some new Foreign Policy! And someone with Scruples in the White House.

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Another Bill C.

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Mon Oct-13-03 11:23 PM
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2. Sleepwalkers

For the most part, people sleepwalked through Vietnam. There was a "guns and butter" budget which insulated the general public from the financial cost of the war. There were 55,000 Americans killed there but few of them were from prominent or well-to-do families so their deaths went largely unnoticed. Phony body counts were published in a little box on the front page of the newspapers but the "police action" itself was mostly old news.

I had to sit through a lot of propaganda films in the Navy just before we escalated that "war" and they were just as full of baloney as was Powell's speech at the U.N. I was discharged about then and happily went home.

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frank frankly

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Mon Oct-13-03 11:40 PM
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3. thanks for the knowledge

Hey, Hey, LBJ, How Many Did You Kill Today?

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