Scott McClellan slips: "Each life" lost in Iraq is worth it for the cause.

[BurtWorm]

"Q And you're convinced each one of those lives is worth it, Scott?

"MR. McCLELLAN: Each one -- well, let me say, when I say we remember, honor, mourn the loss of those who have made the ultimate sacrifice, we do so for those in Iraq and Afghanistan. We also remember those who lost their lives on September 11th, nearly three years ago today. And that's why I said it's important that we continue to wage a broad war on terrorism and that we work to spread freedom throughout the Middle East and transform that region so that we defeat the ideologies of hatred and tyranny."


Remember those exact words, "remember, honor, mourn the loss of those who have made the ultimate sacrifice," for Scott hath learned his lines well and will be repeating them over and over and over and over, any time he is asked how the admin feels about losing so many American (forget Iraqi!) lives for Bush's pet war.

[rumguy]

1. "the ultimate sacrifice"

I don't think they really understand what that means.

Does lil' Scotty spend any time mourning their sacrifice? I fuckin' doubt it.

[Bugaboo]

2. Maybe when we've lost 3000 soldiers

they'll finally shut up about the 3000 lives lost on 9/11, as if being below that 3000 mark makes the loss of life acceptable.

and don't forget all the civilians in Afghanistan and Iraq who have been made the ultimate sacrifice because of our actions - far, far more than 3000, but I guess their lives just don't count as much as our lives.

blah, blah, blah - these people have no scruples and make me sick, sick, sick.

[ogradda]

3. they always mention 9/11

to make the connection between terrorism and the war in iraq they're terrified of people realizing there is no connection. i find it hard to believe there are still a lot of people who believe there is a connection but apparently there are.

[Must_B_Free]

4. there is one connection

they're all dead. all 4000 of them.

[radfringe]

5. It's not the numbers

1,000+ dead, 7,000+ wounded, $2-billion dollars+ according to the last news briefs

but it's not these numbers alone that makes this war a "catastrophic success" - or as I call it a "magnificent failure"

it's the question of "why?"

bush* and Cheney tried to connect a dot between Bin-Laden and Saddam and link it to 9-11 -- but then they backed off that "dot" (sort-of)

Then it was the "smoking-gun being a mushroom cloud" - Saddam was 45 minutes away from launchng an attack (this was Blair's favorite booga-booga), then it was the Weapons of Mass Destruction -- which when the WMD's couldn't be found it turned into WMD related programs and sprinkled with Saddam INTENDED to build WMDs

1,000+ dead - why?
7,000+ wounded - why?
$2-billion dollars+ - why?

and now the same "dots" are being "connected" to Iran -- that Iran is funding/helping terrorists is believeable -- but is it true? How much of this can we believe? How much of this is hype and political scare tactics because an election hangs in the balance?

Before the we vote, before we are scared into another war - bush*-Cheney Inc. owes us an explaination, they owe us the truth. 1,000+ dead - why? 7,000+ wounded - why? $2-billion dollars+ - why? bush*-Cheney need to be held accountable.

bush*-Cheney inc.'s campaign slogan is "we've turned the corner and we are not going back" -- but in my mind the real slogan is "be afraid - be very afraid"

1,000+ dead - why?
7,000+ wounded - why?
$2-billion dollars+ - why?