2000 DEAD

I'm sickened by America's lack of intelligence on this historic failed "regime change".

Where is the intelligence....the historic perspective....

Intelligence anyone?

This is significant because this is almost exactly the rate of death experienced by the Soviets in Afghanistan.

Did the Soviets get beaten militarily in Afghanistan?

NO.

They got to a point where they realized it was a NO WIN situation.
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1000 dead per year for about 10 years.
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Agonizingly ironic because it was OBL's elation about the defeat of the Soviet's there.....

and the specific actions of the Bush family obsession with actions in the Middle East....

which was twisted into the impetus for 911....

talking about. They missed the so called Intelligent Design. That's not everyone in America, thank goodness.

....is a realization that 2000 dead is significant....for specific identifiable, rational reasons.

1. It matches very closely the debacle the Soviets had in Afghanistan.
2. It follows the same type of scenario of how insurgents battle a superpower under disadvantaged, aggravating conditions.

The point is....Bushco CREATED the exact same scenario by destroying every military piece in the country, plowing the country into chaos....creating a situation where there is no real chance of a coherent new government emerging or defending itself as a nation...

therefore....

there is a very high probability you will see the same type of "Afghanistan scenario" unfold...

I almost fell out of my chair this morning...the St. Louis Post Dispatch published the names of the first 2,000 US deaths in Iraq on 2 FULL pages on the editorial page. Here's a link to their website, but it doesn't do it justice - it's more dramatic seeing the names spread across two full pages:

St. Louis Post Dispatch 10/27/05 editorial page

I was shocked because the paper (which used to have a liberal slant) has been more recently sliding to the right. Maybe, just maybe, we're starting to see the worm turn...