2500, 5000, 10,000, 63,000, 100,000....How many more?

More must die to make death meaningful, according to G.W. Bush.

But how far from truth is it from this Bush justification for continued US military aggression:

"I think the American people now fully understand that we are in an important struggle; a struggle that will take time, and that their country -- there will be moments of sacrifice. We've seen two such examples today. The thing that's important for me to tell the American people, that these soldiers will not have died in vain. This is a just cause." - GW Bush 2001 on the deaths of US soldiers in Pakistan, some of the first casualties in the "War on Terror".

Five years later...and a million or more dead and wounded

"And it's hard work. It's hard work to go from a tyranny to a democracy. And I understand why people are concerned. I understand it. Listen, I meet with -- the hardest job of the President is to meet with families of the fallen. And it's a -- it's my duty. But almost to a person, they say, whatever you do, Mr. President, complete the mission, lay the foundation of peace so my child had not died in vain. And I give them that assurance every time I meet with them." - GW Bush May 2006 after the deaths of 2500 service men and women, hundreds of thousands of Iraqi civilians and countless maimed and wounded in Iraq

You can't lay a "foundation of peace" by first covering the ground with blood.

We need to realize this war is not about what John Kerry said or Dennis Kucinich said, or what Ann Coulter says...it is about the continued slaughter of human life that stems directly from aggressive U.S. military action around the world and belligerent foreign policies of the Bush Administration.

with blood!
But you can lay a great foundation for peace if
YOU KILL EVERYBODY THERE! :+

and bush knows that. Just keep those flags waving and spewing forth cute little slogans like cut and run. And their mindless logic grows on itself. The more of our troops get killed the stronger in their mind is the argument that they should not die in vain, and their solution, more of them dying. Is that not insanity?

What will change the minds of "conservatives" and have them rushing for a new talking point to define patriotism is when some republican elected official says we need to institute the draft to continue this madness. That's when the current number of casualties will be enough.

We will find that out after this cabal is out of power. These haters of democracy, how they hate freedom and everything associated with it, and will spill the blood of our own troops and Iraqi's for their own gain.

If only it was a little harder to go from a democracy to a tyranny. :shrug: