What do you think the Iraq War memorial will look like, and when will it go up?

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Lifer
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We are over 500 dead in this conflict. I wonder if it will take more than 50 years to come up with something, as WWII did.... What do you think it will look like?
 

BDawg

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The memorial will probably be some dead soldiers around a box labeled "Iraqi WMD." The box will have butterflies coming out of it.
 

MacBaine

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Aren't we still waiting for a WWII memorial? I think a few more people died in that one... I may be wrong though...
 

PatboyX

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Originally posted by: BDawg
The memorial will probably be some dead soldiers around a box labeled "Iraqi WMD." The box will have butterflies coming out of it.

thats a pretty intensely vonnegut-y image.
 

dmcowen674

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Originally posted by: BDawg
The memorial will probably be some dead soldiers around a box labeled "Iraqi WMD." The box will have butterflies coming out of it.

With all due respect to our "Fallen Soldiers", it will most likely be a WMD (Weapons of Mass Donkey).

 

NickE

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Originally posted by: MacBaine
Aren't we still waiting for a WWII memorial? I think a few more people died in that one... I may be wrong though...

That's certainly true, but it got me remembering something I once read - something like half a million UK soldiers died, about the same number of Americans, but around 26 million Russians! Makes you understand a bit why they acted like they did in the 50's and 60's.

 

I don't think there will be one, since the 'war' ended before those 500 were killed, and many Presidents (esp. GOP ones) wouldn't want to admit that a war was going on after the major combat operations ended. Plus, isn't the Iraq war, as President Bush has stated many, many times, just a building block in the War on Terror? I think there will be a WOT memorial eventually, but I don't think this Iraq conflict will get its own.