Sleestak -
Son ? Are you trying to be a little condecending there junior ?
Seems to me that I'm a little older and wiser than to be addressed as 'Son'
Lets see - 'Nam in '66 was 38 years ago, when I was 21 - 3rd year in the service.
200,000 civilians ? Don't see that I wrote that, did write 200,000 killed in Gulf war -
thats the initial figures that were released by the U.S. as to Iraqi Military deaths
from our bombing and advancements in freeing Kuwait from the Iraqi invasion.
Seems we were pretty good at bursting their tanks and buildings with our weaponry.
Do you think that 1 kill per expended ordanance is an appropriate figure ?
I would hope that our weapons which cost thousands of dollars each have a better
kill ratio than 1 person per bomb, Hell we dropped somewhat more than 10,000
in this last game of tag, do you think that most of them went off without affecting anyone.
I have spent 40 years in the defense industry, so I know better than most what our stuff will, or will not do.
I look at Gulf 1 Bosnia, Afganistan, Gulf 2, etc. - as a validation of my resume, I either fixed it, built it,
designed it, or built the equipment that delivered it. I do WMD.
As to Iraqi dead there were over a million killed in the war with Iran, by our proxie - when we supplied
and supported their side, after we backed Saddam in his takeover of the country before that.
Is Iraq our Redheaded Arab Bastard Stepchild ? Well, yes it is. We grew it - we chew it.
The question was Iraq Mass graves - Threat or Menace. Is this the WMD in the form of a B-Movie
thriller 'Night of the Iraqi Dead' where past history comes back from the grave to haunt us.
"Cursed be they that moves these bones" Shakespeare, or some local or psycological curse.
Could be, We may not have pulled the trigger each and every time, but we shared in the
profit taking in the sales to Iraq of materials and equipment that has no other purpose than war.
Gassed Kurds ? Gassed Iranian Soldiers ? Canisters stamped 'Made in U.S.A.' Great product.
Union made and Quality control you know. War is big business - invest your children.
Been there - done that, don't need no lectures - too easy to sit back and cheer the Cowboy's
without having to face the Indians, Germans, Viet Cong, Notre Dame, or St. Louis Rams.
Unless youv're invested a part of your life in the situation you know not what you're doing.
Oh, by the way according to Dubyas Daddy, Big George the Mediocre - "Saddam" translates
into 'Boot-Black Lacky' and thats why he pronounced it like he did.