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Originally posted by ^Ice_Bat^
The more I find out about why we are at war, the more I agree with what is going on.
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Please elaborate what you are finding out and where you are finding it. I have only heard hypocracy, conflicting rhetoric and political backsliding.
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In the three days of the battle of Gettysburg, for instance, over 50,000 human casualties were reported, which is nearly the amount of lives taken in the entire Vietnam war. We will be in Iraq for as long as it takes to rebuild the nation, however, I believe it will be a much shorter time span than that of Vietnam.
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Do you mean American lives lost in the Vietnam conflict, or total casualties?
The Civil War was rather unique in that the weapons technology was far beyond the tactics employed, and medical science at the time was downright primitive.
I expect the citizens of the United States will never accept casualty figures in thousands again in any armed engagement on foreign soil. We are not used to seeing our own blood and have come to consider ourselves invincible.