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Bush and his co-conspirators must face a Nuremberg-style war crimes tribunal for their actions.

Bring 'em on!

Bush & Cheney are lying about everything, including 9/11! Wake-up already!

Mission Accomplished:

http://digg.com/politics/Gas_prices_strike_fresh_r ...

Can anyone define success from this point forward? what can be defined as a success in Iraq?

Can we be reminded what that "mission" was again?

The "mission" = Greed for power and wealth.

Vietnam and Iraq = stupid wars fought because of hubris from the ruling elite who have no skin in the game at the expense of our brave and funded by the U.S. taxpayer. Throw the corrupt rascals out of office now! They do not represent America.

***** the government...
I love the place I live but I have the people in charge...

bush still taunts the war as a success..

I'm sorry, but all of these "4000 dead" digg threads are *****, and this is from someone against the war. Why do diggers care about these troops who die in Iraq but care nothing about even tens of thousands of preventable deaths at home? In the past five years many more people have been killed by gun violence in the US than in Iraq, especially in urban communities, but you don't post constant updates of "10,000 killed in Oakland/Compton/Detroit since 2003" each day. And sadly, many of the people being killed in these communities are the same who would join the army. So if they die in Iraq your mourn them, if they die at home you ignore them. These "urban" soldiers actually have a better chance of surviving in Iraq than in their homes. At least in the army they are getting paid and learning discipline.

If you really cared about saving lives you would do more to prevent them. You would join a cause that actually saves lives, rather than leave pointless political comments on digg. You could save thousands of lives just by teaching proper pool safety and lockup to your neighbors (more kids die in pools each year than are killed by guns). And you can still be political in your free time, but at least your "sadness" over 4000 dead Americans will seem genuine.

We get it, you hate Bush and his administration. But stop acting like you care about these 4000 soldiers when you cared nothing about them before they joined the army. Thousands of Americans have died from preventable accidents yet you care nothing about them because you can't blame Bush. You are only latching on to these numbers to further boast about your hatred of him. If you really cared about saving lives, go out and do something about it, THEN come back and boast.

Impeach the chimp!

"So?"

Two death sentences after two treason trials would be a fitting way to end this bloody war of political convenience and corporate profit.

Well so much for easy in easy out and by the way it will pay for it's self. mr bush will most likely get a good job hawking junk on QVC!

submisson accomplished!
http://www.airfarceone.net/shrubdown.gif

97% of the time spent in Iraq was after mission accomplished.

I'd really like to say something original and heart warming and all that... but honestly, I'm pretty sure everyone feels the same way I do. At a loss for words because of the crimes our (United States) country has committed in the name of....(in the name of what exactly?) We went in under false pretenses.... we are occupying a nation that couldn't have harmed us if they tried.

http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/03/24/america/ ...

"A closer look at US military deaths in Iraq:

_Percentages by service branch: Army: 72 percent; Marines: 24 percent; Navy: 2 percent; Air Force: 1 percent (Coast Guard had one death.)

_Percentages by service force: Active duty: 83 percent; National Guard: 10 percent; Reserve: 6 percent.

_Percent who died since President George W. Bush declared major combat ended: 97 percent

_Months with the most deaths since the start of the war: November 2004: 137; April 2004: 135; May 2007: 126; December 2006: 112; January 2005: 107

_Iraq provinces with most deaths since the start of war: Baghdad: 1,113; Anbar: 1,099; Salaheddin: 513; Nineveh: 220; Diyala: 136

_Percentage killed by an improvised explosive device: 44 percent in 2007; 56 percent to date in 2008

_Percent of deaths that were non-hostile: 18 percent

_Number who died of illness: 66

_Percent who were officers: 9 percent

_Number older than 45 years: 83

_Number who were age 18: 33

_Number of women: 98

_Percent of the dead who were women: 2 percent

_Percentages by ethnic group: White: 75 percent; Hispanic or Latino: 11 percent; Black or African American: 9 percent; Asian: 2 percent; multiple races, pending, or unknown: 1 percent; American Indian or Alaska Native: 1 percent; Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander: 1 percent

_Number from California, the most of any home state: 429

_Number from Wyoming, least of any home state: 12 (Washington, D.C.: 6 deaths)

_Number from Texas: 371

_Number from New York state: 173

_Number from Puerto Rico: 33

_Percent from the South (region according to US Census Bureau): 36 percent

_Percent from the Northeast: (region according to US Census Bureau): 15 percent

_Highest deaths per capita (based on U.S. Census population estimates): Vermont, 3.22; Nebraska, 2.42, Alaska, 2.34; Montana and Wyoming, 2.30; South Dakota, 2.26

I wish we would make a distinction between asymmetrical warfare and terrorism. It really confuses the word "terrorism" when absolutely every military act taken against the U.S. gets classified as "terrorism". Maybe we could call the guerrilla-type sneak attacks against military targets "terrified-ism" and the attacks on civilian targets could still be called "terrorism". Although I do like "smithereen commandos" too. Has the effect of pulling the rug out posthumously.

If you cannot distinguish between High and Low Intensity Conflicts and thus cannot understand the difference between the two missions than your opinion on the subject is worthless. One mission (the easy one) was complete, the second one is much harder and incomplete. The problem is the that the administration only planned for the first mission and dropped the ball on the follow on mission. Thankfully some smart brass has started to fix the bulk of the problems of the past couple of year (as evidenced by the declining violence and generally better conditions).

Pretty sad that Americans had to die for a an undeclared war. At least it hasn't gotten to the capacity of vietnam. I think it is pretty messed up when there was no defensive measure. 4000 Americans dead, man is that sad. For what? We are 1-3 trillion in debt, 4000 dead, tanking currency, arming militants that we only months before the conflict wanted to defeat. How ass backwards can Americans get.

Freedom? Heh. The biggest crime of all is how that term has been twisted into a meaningless scapegoat to justify anything.

I'm wondering when Bush is going to insist that his girls enlist....

Cobra = Bush & Cheney

as did record breaking profits for Big Oil™. so you see, the mission was indeed accomplished for some.

Can you say........vote?

When will the government that we have already lost? 4,000 dead soldiers and hundreds of thousands of dead Iraqi citizens, there can be no win there.

I remember at the beginning of this war they were talking about how there would hardly be any American soldiers killed and how it would only cost 50 billion dollars at the most. I can't believe how wrong they were.

How can it be 'Mission Accomplished' when no WMD were found?

mission accomplished?
yeah right, there is no mission.

America is NOT at war. The American military is at war. America is at the mall. One percent of the population is in uniform serving in the military. We'll leave footing the bill for this, and the trillion+ dollars not accounted for yet that will go to pay for the Veteran's hospitals, medical care and replenishments of weapons, ammo, ships, tanks, trucks etc destroyed and used... to our kids.

Smoke 'em out of their holes!

4000 dead... now its mission accomplished! If that was your mission...

4,000 doesn't sound like much unless you are one of the people it represents,and lets not forget about the almost 3,000 in the towers, and lets not forget we are supposed to be the liberators of oppressed people ,not the invaders of sovereign country's that didn't attack us. The most secure air space in history not able to repel 4 unarmed aircraft flying around the country, and the first steel structured buildings to fall from fire in history , all in one day on American soil, and one not hit by a airplane. I also have Oceanside property in Arizona if you believe the news media on this one.

Not sure why others aren't bring this up. I myself am a bit of a history geek. I have tons of WW2 pictures with battle cruisers during the war (in the Atlantic). A very common practice would be to display "mission accomplished" on war ships after every major island has been taken over (when the US was island hopping). Obviously, the war wasn't over when they display the slogan; instead, it was used to boost morale among soldiers after any significant battle/operation.

Criticizing the slogan shows you don't know what it means and the history behind its usage. Instead, it is just rhetoric to push a political agenda.

In May 2005, Vice President Cheney declared that the insurgency in Iraq was in its “last throes”

lying ***** scum.

4,000 troop deaths is a number that just scratches the surface...

"A growing number of U.S. troops whose body armor helped them survive bomb and rocket attacks are suffering brain damage as a result of the blasts. It's a type of injury some military doctors say has become the signature wound of the Iraq war. Known as traumatic brain injury, or TBI, the wound is of the sort that many soldiers in previous wars never lived long enough to suffer. The explosions often cause brain damage similar to "shaken-baby syndrome," says Warren Lux, a neurologist at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington.

Almost 30,000 American troops have been wounded in Iraq, according to official counts. But that's just the official figure; the Pentagon doesn't have adequate mechanisms in place to accurately track the number of wounded soldiers, and unofficial estimates range to 100,000. How many of those soldiers and Marines suffered wounds so severe that they would have been KIA in any of America's previous conflicts? Nobody knows for sure, but it's clear that 4,000 is a number that doesn't tell the whole story of this war's impact on U.S. servicemen and women."

http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/80484/

Same percentage for terrorist death toll as well.