Tuesday, April 08, 2003
What is wrong with us? There is something fundamentally missing here. Have we lost our humanity? Have we seen too many action movies? Do we have a nation, were a large number of us were dropped on our heads when we were babies? Here are some recent quotes on how little we care for soldiers, their families and friends, of those, who have already died in this war.
"Given the extent of this operation, I'm surprised it's that little," said Mr. Wolfgang, 43.
Somebody wake this guy up when we have some really massive number of dead Americans, so he can maybe start to care!
"I'm surprised it's that high," countered Mr. Wutke, 41. "It seems we're just riding through the desert on a horse, killing them left and right, and we're losing quite a few along the way."
Is this a buffalo hunt, are the boys having a good ole time out there?
Mr. Wolfgang: "We go to war with somebody, we start using bombs and guns, people are going to die."
You can't make mayonaise, without breaking a few eggs right! Too bad we are talking about human lives here, not just numbers on a page!
Mr. Wutke: "I don't look at numbers. I look at names."
This guy, doesn't care as long as its not someone they know. At least he cares about somebody!
That position reflects the sentiment of scores of people interviewed today across the country and of public opinion experts who have surveyed thousands of Americans in recent polls.
casualties had not eroded their support for the war, and that they could accept two, three or even 10 times as many deaths in the coming weeks, as long as success was in sight. Many said they were focused more on the status of the allied advance than on body counts.
So, if these guys are right, we won't care how many die as long as we win. Maybe it is me, but does anyone realize that we attacked them, before they attacked us. We are like the Japanese in 1941 and Our attack on Iraq is just like the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941, an unprovoked attack, a day that will live in infamy?
Jack Nimz, 42, a patent attorney who lives in Glenview, a Chicago suburb. "says Even if an extra 100 people had died, I'd think we should go forward because we've been so successful."
I guess he doesn't count thousands of dead Iraqis that didn't do anything to us, before we attacked them!
Others noted that the 88 killed in Iraq was just a fraction of the more than 3,000 who died on Sept. 11, 2001.
I can't believe so many believe Iraq caused the September 11th terrorist attacks! Iraq didn't attack us on September 11th,!
Professor Gitlin , a professor of journalism and sociology at Columbia University, predicted that, "if it got into four digits, that would arrest attention."said, "as long as the military can make a plausible case that they're winning the war and it's in its final approach to victory — however they are defining victory — then I don't think they are in any danger of casualty backlash."
So, if we hit the magic number of 1000 dead soldiers, we will get some people asking questions? Does it take that many dead Americans to get us off our butts and start thinking for ourselves and question this war?
Sarah Pinsky, a clerk in Chicago, said she would prefer a battle of Baghdad with 1,500 casualties and victory announced the next day to 1,500 dead over three years with no end in sight.
I am glad she is not commanding our troops!
"This is not a heavy toll," said Vic Weber, 59, who was drinking coffee at a Starbuck's today in downtown Los Angeles. "I bet it's less than what the military loses in training exercises every year in this country."
Hey, kids play with guns they get hurt, right, no big deal it's not his kids getting killed, so what does he care!
Vince Ruffalo, 47, a Denver legal consultant who served in the Air Force stateside during the Vietnam War, said he was tired of hearing about the casualties. "It's like a score at a football game, 29 to 2, with one injured and going to the bench,"
Mr. Ruffalo said. What quarter is it Mr. Ruffalo? How many points I mean dead bodies, did you spot Iraq?
Several people said they had felt only pride when hearing of the soldiers killed in Iraq.
Here are some people in desperate need of mental health treatment in a bad way!
Jesus Christ! I can't even put words together to express the anger I feel at the callousness of these people! This is an unjust war people! Those soldiers didn't have to die! The soldiers that die in the days to come don't have to die! But die they will, until Bush gets his oil trophy, all in the name of his so-called god. I have to stop writing now, because I am getting sicker and sicker as I go over the above mentioned comments by my fellow americans.
Sources Cited:
By JODI WILGOREN with ADAM NAGOURNEY
"Given the extent of this operation, I'm surprised it's that little," said Mr. Wolfgang, 43.
Somebody wake this guy up when we have some really massive number of dead Americans, so he can maybe start to care!
"I'm surprised it's that high," countered Mr. Wutke, 41. "It seems we're just riding through the desert on a horse, killing them left and right, and we're losing quite a few along the way."
Is this a buffalo hunt, are the boys having a good ole time out there?
Mr. Wolfgang: "We go to war with somebody, we start using bombs and guns, people are going to die."
You can't make mayonaise, without breaking a few eggs right! Too bad we are talking about human lives here, not just numbers on a page!
Mr. Wutke: "I don't look at numbers. I look at names."
This guy, doesn't care as long as its not someone they know. At least he cares about somebody!
That position reflects the sentiment of scores of people interviewed today across the country and of public opinion experts who have surveyed thousands of Americans in recent polls.
casualties had not eroded their support for the war, and that they could accept two, three or even 10 times as many deaths in the coming weeks, as long as success was in sight. Many said they were focused more on the status of the allied advance than on body counts.
So, if these guys are right, we won't care how many die as long as we win. Maybe it is me, but does anyone realize that we attacked them, before they attacked us. We are like the Japanese in 1941 and Our attack on Iraq is just like the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941, an unprovoked attack, a day that will live in infamy?
Jack Nimz, 42, a patent attorney who lives in Glenview, a Chicago suburb. "says Even if an extra 100 people had died, I'd think we should go forward because we've been so successful."
I guess he doesn't count thousands of dead Iraqis that didn't do anything to us, before we attacked them!
Others noted that the 88 killed in Iraq was just a fraction of the more than 3,000 who died on Sept. 11, 2001.
I can't believe so many believe Iraq caused the September 11th terrorist attacks! Iraq didn't attack us on September 11th,!
Professor Gitlin , a professor of journalism and sociology at Columbia University, predicted that, "if it got into four digits, that would arrest attention."said, "as long as the military can make a plausible case that they're winning the war and it's in its final approach to victory — however they are defining victory — then I don't think they are in any danger of casualty backlash."
So, if we hit the magic number of 1000 dead soldiers, we will get some people asking questions? Does it take that many dead Americans to get us off our butts and start thinking for ourselves and question this war?
Sarah Pinsky, a clerk in Chicago, said she would prefer a battle of Baghdad with 1,500 casualties and victory announced the next day to 1,500 dead over three years with no end in sight.
I am glad she is not commanding our troops!
"This is not a heavy toll," said Vic Weber, 59, who was drinking coffee at a Starbuck's today in downtown Los Angeles. "I bet it's less than what the military loses in training exercises every year in this country."
Hey, kids play with guns they get hurt, right, no big deal it's not his kids getting killed, so what does he care!
Vince Ruffalo, 47, a Denver legal consultant who served in the Air Force stateside during the Vietnam War, said he was tired of hearing about the casualties. "It's like a score at a football game, 29 to 2, with one injured and going to the bench,"
Mr. Ruffalo said. What quarter is it Mr. Ruffalo? How many points I mean dead bodies, did you spot Iraq?
Several people said they had felt only pride when hearing of the soldiers killed in Iraq.
Here are some people in desperate need of mental health treatment in a bad way!
Jesus Christ! I can't even put words together to express the anger I feel at the callousness of these people! This is an unjust war people! Those soldiers didn't have to die! The soldiers that die in the days to come don't have to die! But die they will, until Bush gets his oil trophy, all in the name of his so-called god. I have to stop writing now, because I am getting sicker and sicker as I go over the above mentioned comments by my fellow americans.
Sources Cited:
By JODI WILGOREN with ADAM NAGOURNEY
# posted by Thomas @ 9:10 PM 
