U.S. Soldiers Are Safer In Iraq
By Dave Gibson (08/29/05)
Perhaps our troops are safer in the streets of Baghdad than they are in the streets of our own cities.
The left-wing media seems to relish announcing the deaths of U.S. troops serving in Iraq. In stark contrast, they ignore the mounting U.S. murder rate. Evidently, they do not believe the latter to be a tragedy (or it does not fit into their agenda).
Though the casualties in Iraq have been rather light considering the size of the operation our brave men and women have been conducting, we are constantly bombarded with an American body count.
At the time this article was written, there were a total of 1,877 U.S. deaths in Iraq. Each one of those deaths represents a tremendous loss to an American family. However, that family can hopefully take some comfort in the fact that their soldier died for a noble cause. 1,877 Americans have given their lives in the service of their country and paid the ultimate sacrifice so that others may know freedom.
While the U.S. death toll in Iraq is tragic, it pales in comparison to the number of Americans lost every year to murder--inside our own borders. In 2004, there were 15,900 murders committed in the United States. Since the start of the Iraq War in March 2002, nearly 48,000 Americans have lost their lives to senseless violence. Unlike the families of our fallen soldiers, the families of murder victims can take no solace in the meaning of their loved-one's sacrifice.
While the leftist media lives and dies on the images of a still-dangerous Iraq, they fail to report the fact that a great number of our own cities have become lawless war zones. During 2004, California alone experienced 1,808 murders.
Last month, two Iraqi War veterans were savagely beaten outside a Seattle nightclub. Both of the men suffered broken jaws, several broken bones, and one lost consciousness. The three gangster attackers continued to stomp on the head of the unconscious soldier. Each of these two heroes spent a year defending freedom in Iraq, only to be brutalized at home.
Our soldiers volunteer to defend this nation and our interests. They understand all too well that in doing so--they may lose their lives. Despite the views to the contrary expressed daily by the subversive American media...It is ridiculous to believe that we can fight a war without incurring casualties.
The next time you hear someone on the left pretend to care about the losses our brave military has suffered...Ask them if they know how many Americans have been murdered at the hands of lawless thugs!
By the way: 2,986 Americans lost their lives to Islamic terrorists on September 11, 2001. That death toll seems to have somehow been forgotten.
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