Prisoner Abuse Scandel

[Buff]

Originally posted by RawAlex@May 11 2004, 10:01 AM
Pornodoggy: there is no shame in agreeing with Buff on this one, there is enough there for us all to agree.

What Buff posted is what I would think of as the "swing" voters finally figuring out that Bush fucked it up. Not intentionally, not planned, but that in the end, a lack of foresight and effectively military strategy has left the US and it's allies on the ground open to reprisals and setup for failure from the word go. The high point was the day that they took bahgdad, it has really been all downhill since.

Buff's opinion as expressed probably matches that of many of the people who were pro war a year or even six months ago, and have seen the bodies pile up and the inaction and excuses stacking up next to them. Without major change, this war (but it's not a war, its a liberation... you will be free, and we will force you to be free) will be Bush's major undoing in the polls.

Alex

Bodies pile up? There is no pile up of bodies. We've lost about 1000 soldiers. That's an unbelievably low casualty rate for a war, even more so considering it's an urban environment.

What I am lamenting is the lack of will to go for the kill and crush the insurgents without mercy -- to achieve victory by brutalizing those animals. 1000 deaths? That's less than 1/6 of the American body count of the Battle of Iwo Jima -- the battle for 1 island in the Pacific theatre of WWII.