There was a running joke back in the mid 80s (and it existed before then and has since then) in military intelligence fields. Whenever someone was sent into a foreign country in MI we would always ask 'Friend or foe?' because it changed too regularly to keep up with. Also the mission was different depending on the current view of the government over there by the administration at the time. Sometimes it would change while you were onsite as well which was alittle hairy....


>>It is not a bogus statement at all. It was meant to put a perspective on the number. People all over the world die everyday, a lot because we didn't/don't act to prevent it and others as a direct or indirect consequence of the actions we have chosen.
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>>Trust me dude I was only a couple of months away from getting a number for the opportunity to visit a little place in southeast asia several years ago. So I don't view these military deaths lightly at all. Fortunately Nixon ended all that before I had to. In Saddam's case I think the greater good has been served by us being there.
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>I don't agree. There is famous photo of Marshal Von Rumsfeld shaking Saddam's hand whe Saddam was "our friend". We gave him the arms to kill Iranians and incidentally used to gas and kill Kurds. The same way Osama Bin Forgotten was "our friend" when he was killing Russians in Afghanistan. Or Noriega was in the CIA payroll when G.H.Bush was the boss, then was not our friend when he was president and then had a revelation and found out that Noriega was not a nice guy at all. And on and on...
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>Please, don't forget to vote next Tuesday.