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Originally Posted by daswig
I guess you've never heard of a "self-fulfilling prophecy"?
Actually, a lot of it is caused by the way the MSM, still a bastion of anti-Americanism, is reporting on it. In over a full year of war, we've lost less people than we lost on the beaches during D-Day, when we were faced by old men and young boys as an adversary (read Keegan on the makeup of the beach defense units). The TOTAL number of civilian and military deaths is far less than a single night of carpetbombing with conventional munitions produced.
During the actual invasion, I recall seeing pictures of Iraqi military people who were using women and children as human shields because they thought that American soldiers would allow themselves to be killed rather than kill the human shields to get at the guy shooting at them. I wonder who gave them THAT idea?
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You're having some serious issues with
post hoc, ergo propter hoc. After this, therefore because of this. Simply because military strategists and anti-war people predicted that the war would not be anything close to the walk in the park the pro-war crowd suggested most certainly does
not mean that the war was not the walk in the park the pro-war crowd suggested
because military strategists and anti-war people predicted it would not.
In fact, to even suggest there is a primary causal effect there is either intentionally deceptive or comically stupid.
But since I have read your posts in the past and been in a couple of discussions with you, I recognize this to be entirely fruitless. So I'm out.