Originally posted by neon_duke
No, actually, it's not irrelevant at all. He was attempting to highight the fact that more Americans are killed every year by the rare and random occurrance of lightning than have died in this WAR, war being a situation were the odds of getting killed generally seem higher than average.
What? Do you think, this country was in a war? Well...lets compare the military equipment that both countries had. While the US military had the latest gadgets and technological equipment (By chance, did you see that news report in which explained how much does it cost to maintain a US soldier?), F18 bombers, satellite aid, while the Iraq army had Ak-74s, no military gear, they basically wore black clothes, basically outdated WWII battlegear.
I think it was more on an invasion of the United States of America to Iraq. The reason?, to free the Iraq citizens?,
bull****! It was because of the oil and the lucrative interests. Now you can say that Iraq Hussein was a maniac, but why didnt this country invade Cuba instead, after all to the Americans, Fidel Castro is a
maniac Why not help the Cubans too?
Besides, who the hell has the right to invade other countries because of the president's will? Thats why I am totally in favor of the UN negative critics. That and on top of all, this campaign was so overreacted and tactically badly done. Do you need to bomb the place?, when intelligence already knew Hussein was underground?, Now, it was just to show that the US military was doing something, but instead they were doing NOTHING. Just to showoff that these idiots were doing something. So whats the idea...destroy a city to rebuild it again? with the same money. Lets add the cost of all the weapons plus the money to rebuilt it again. Isnt that stupid?
Even though I disagree with this invasion, I cant deny the fact that human lives were lost, from both sides. And I respect that. But for god's sake call this a war?
War was WWI, WWII. Basically a situation in which both sides are equally equipped, capable of destroying each other. The winner would obviously be the one who employs the best strategy and war tactics.