Sunday, January 14, 2007

COMBAT DEATHS

i read a letter to the editor the other day. it said that those of us opposed to the invasion of iraq, the ongoing mass murder in iraq, should stop our "whining", discontinue our opposition to the invasion[s] promoted by the most grotesque lies imaginable.

the letter went on to substantiate this proposition by stating that the military actions in iraq were virtually immaterial because so few u.s. military personnel had been killed. only 3,000 the writer wrote.

one could respond by saying that the writer has revealed that he is severely "brain-damaged" by asserting that the deaths of 3,000 u.s. military personnel is virtually immaterial. but it is so much worse than that. the author of that proposition is just phenomenally ignorant.

for instance, let us consider how the bushit regime altered the classification of DEATH in the countries that it decided to invade[afghanistan, iraq].

1. to be considered a combat death, an individual in the u.s. military serving in those countries must be killed straight-away. at that site. how does this concept work? pay attention.....

as an example, let us consider a squad[4] of marines in one of the unarmored humvees with which the republican warmongers supplied u.s military personnel for the invasions of these countries.

the squad of marines is driving down the road beyond the green zone. a sniper shoots and kills the driver instantly - he dies at that site. the humvee overturns, the other marines are seriously injured.

one of the injured marines dies from his injuries while being transported by corpsmen from the site. the other two marines are transported by air to germany for medical treatment.

one dies enroute.

the other reaches germany successfully. he/she receives triage treatment and is then flown to the walter reade[a hospital that the bushits are going to close, by the way] facility in DC. after arriving at walter reade, this soldier dies from the injuries sustained in iraq/ afghanistan.

HOW ARE THESE DEATHS TABULATED?

1 COMBAT DEATH.

2. so, let us now reconfigure this incident.

once again, a squad[4] of marines in one of the unarmored hummvees with which the republican warmongers supplied u.s military personnel for the invasions of these countries.

the squad of marines is driving down the road beyond the green zone. a sniper shoots and wounds the driver. the hummvee overturns, the other marines are seriously injured.

the driver dies after being attended to by corpsmen. at the site.

another one of the injured marines dies from his injuries while being transported by corpsmen from the site. the other two marines are transported by air to germany for medical treatment.

one dies enroute.

the other reaches germany successfully. he/she receives triage treatment and is then flown to the walter reade[a hospital that the bushits are going to close, by the way] facility in DC. after arriving at walter reade, this soldier dies from the injuries sustained in iraq/ afghanistan.

HOW ARE THESE DEATHS TABULATED?

0 COMBAT DEATHS.

any of you out there see something distorted, here?

up until this bushit/cheney/rumsfeld military misadventuring, if you were killed in a combat zone, your death was labelled a combat death. why did bushit/cheney/rumsfeld change that historical classification regimen, do you think?

probably for the same reason that they prohibited press coverage/photographs of caskets returning to the u.s. from iraq, afghanistan.

THEY DON'T WANT THE CITIZENS OF THE UNITED STATES TO KNOW THE COST OF THEIR HOMICIDAL PRIAPISM.

3. so let us go back and reconsider the number of combat deaths. i have recounted how 5 became 1. and how 5 could be 0.

recognizing that "spin", the combat deaths of u.s. soldiers invested into iraq, and only iraq, could be 12,000+.

personally, i think the number of u.s military combat deaths ranges from 15,000 - 20,000.

in less than 4 years, this puts the bushit military misadventuring right up there with lyndon johnson's/ dick nixon's military misadventuring in seasia.

never forget...what is important is how combat deaths are counted. knowing what i know about the bushit/ cheney/rumsfeld revised combat death accounting standards, i think that you can multiply 3,000 by a factor of 4x to 7x.

4. and that is the death count.

let us now focus on the u.s. military maim count. you ever see an accounting for all those who have lost arms, hands, legs, feet?

another hidden account.

5. and for all you good christian souls, tell me, how do you approve all the noncombatant deaths that have been created/will be created in your name?

since the bushit/cheney/rumsfeld insurgency, 500,000, i think. are you comfortable with that level of homicide?

you must be. because i don't see your protests.


as walter used to say...and that is the way it is. january, 2007.

by the way, until bushit/cheney/rumsfeld, deaths in a combat zone were accurately tabulated. prior to this "spin" regime, when u.s military personnel were wounded fatally, those fatalities would be noted as combat deaths.

i close this way, muse on why it would be that the bushit regime would ratchet down the reality of the deaths sustained by u.s. military personnel in afghanistan, iraq.

could it be that the bushit regime wants you to think that the costs of the investment in usa lives are lower than the reality?

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