Stop comparing those that die in Iraq with those that died during World War II

When a bomb went off in Afghanistan near U.S. Vice-president Dick Cheney, I couldn’t understand the big deal. After all, Abraham Lincoln was murdered.

Sure, 9/11 was bad, but more than 50,000 people died at Gettysburg during the Civil War. Get some perspective.

Think Hurricane Katrina was bad? Stop being such pansies. After all, the Black Death killed 75 million during the 1300s.

Callous? Cruel? Definitely.

But those statements above are the exact equivalent of many of the warmongers who so readily compare the U.S. invasion of Iraq with World War II.

Because you hear it all the time. Like a mantra – “Only 3,000 U.S. troops have been killed, you pansies would never have been able to deal with the Battle of the Bulge. We lost 19,000 troops there.”

Somehow, this argument for nation building is not treated as it is – a callous form of massive disrespect for both Iraq veterans, and World War II veterans.

This is not World War II. And it’s definitely not World War III, unless the PNAC crowd decides that the world will turn a blind eye to the U.S. using any types of nukes in Iran.

So stop it, already. It’s not a valid argument. Tossing numbers of dead U.S. soldiers in the air to make a case for war is not patriotic. It’s evil, and it disrespects every American serving, and that ever served in the military.

–WKW

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