The same goes with the clamour over the deaths in Iraq (and Afghanistan). With two resistance wars going and two occupations to fuel them, so far the mortality rate isn't anything someone like Rumsfeld won't tolerate. He would reason: you can't justify such expensive combat arms army and marine divisions unless they actually engage in combat (beyond realistic training). Still, remember, everyday military operations (often called 'training') kill and maim thousands of service people every year, with or without occupations in hostile countries. Yes, I'm sure, the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan have added to the total and rates of military deaths and injuries (especially injuries, especially Iraq, where so many are surviving horrific injuries), but it's not that much above the historical background of the so-called 'peace time' service that true patriots won't find it in their hearts for others to bear (especially since it seems to be rather satisfying to the collective blood lust of the US that so many Iraqis die).
These issues aren't going to make the war and occupation unviable. And they are not going to galvanize a stalled 'anti-war' movement in the US. That is going to take a collective change in the imagination (so far most Americans prove incapable of imagining a Resistance in Iraq, let alone having it verified by doctrinally manipulated reporters who set foot 'in country'). Perhaps it's just too much Hollywood revisionism (DO WE GET TO WIN THIS TIME?!). Perhaps it's that Clinton and Gore shifted the centre way too far right at the wrong time (for the fate of countries like Iraq anyway). Remember, loser and bore, Al Gore, stood before the VFW and promised military budgets in excess of the Repugs and in excess of the two annual increases Clinton 2 had already given us. And the Democrats campaigned actively on aggressive regime change for Iraq and 'democratisation' of the ME, whatever the f-ing hell that might mean to the likes of them.
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