Let's never forget our wounded and fallen soldiers

[WinterBorn]

rupol2000, allow me to educate you on the US military deaths against the Taliban and the Baath.

Persian Gulf war - Total US deaths 382 Total Hostile/Battle deaths 147
Iraq Operations - Total US deaths 4600 Total Hostile/Battle deaths 3539
Afghanistan Operations - Total US deaths 2456 Total Hostile/Battle deaths 1922

That comes to 7,438 total US deaths. And a total of 5,608 deaths due to Hostiles and Battles.

Less than 10,000 deaths, but you claim hundreds of thousands? Is being wrong a hobby of yours?

 

[Deadstick]

Those guys died for nothing, well not quite nothing they died for the industrial military complex, they were used, same with thousands of British soldiers who died in those illegal and senseless wars, Smedley Butller had it right all those years ago. i really wish people would wake up.

“I spent 33 years and four months in active military service and during that period I spent most of my time as a high class muscle man for Big Business, for Wall Street and the bankers. In short, I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism. I helped make Mexico and especially Tampico safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefit of Wall Street. I helped purify Nicaragua for the International Banking House of Brown Brothers in 1902-1912. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for the American sugar interests in 1916. I helped make Honduras right for the American fruit companies in 1903. In China in 1927 I helped see to it that Standard Oil went on its way unmolested. Looking back on it, I might have given Al Capone a few hints. The best he could do was to operate his racket in three districts. I operated on three continents.”​

― Smedley D. Butler, War is a Racket