Nov 22 as “Victory In Iraq” Day or VI Day
I linked over to this while I was reading BlackFive. On the VI Day web site, there are many reasons to pursue this, not the least of which is that the Spreader-Elect got his election started by campaigning against the war in Iraq. He shouldn’t be allowed to declare Victory or anything else for that matter. For all the rationale on the VI Day web site, I like this particular piece of rationale the most:
If you don’t want to rely on anecdotal evidence or politcal analysis, carefully study the official casualty statistics for U.S. troops in Iraq and you will see that they have reached extremely low levels, so low that they no longer even come close to rising to the level of “war”; it is now more dangerous to walk the streets of most major American cities than it is to be stationed in Iraq. For example, Chicago, just a single city in the United States, all by itself experienced twice as many shootings and killings of Americans as did the entire nation of Iraq over recent months:
125 Shot Dead In Chicago Over Summer
Total Is About Double The U.S. Troop Death Toll In Iraq
“CHICAGO (CBS) — An estimated 125 people were shot and killed over the summer. That’s nearly double the number of U.S. soldiers killed in Iraq over the same time period.
What more need be said? Whatever lingering violence still exists is Iraq is now nothing more than a series of minor disconnected terrorist attacks, which have become completely ineffectual in changing the hearts and minds of the populace, or re-igniting another civil war.”