42% of the callers on the CNN poll thought combat deaths in Iraq were low.

[Swede]

These people should immediately sign up for combat duty and shut the fuck up!

[jumpstart33]

1. Or send their children.

At least 10,000 votes should be against Bush. 1000 X 10 for at least ten family memebers of each one of the dead voting against him.

[Texas.45]

2. You are misrepresenting the poll

The poll actually asked whether the deaths were higher or lower than YOU EXPECTED. Big difference, these people just said they were lower than what they expected.

[LisaL]

3. I am not sure

what are we supposed to expect?

[Texas.45]

4. Not sure, it just asked whether it was more

or less than you expected. I personally expected more. Urban combat usually leads to high casulty rates. Look at Somalia as the best current example. 18 dead US Rangers, dozens more wounded, and around 5,000 dead Somalians.

[Vickers]

6. But...we weren't supposed to HAVE urban combat, remember?

We were supposed to take out their "elite Republican Guard" (remember them???), and then they would welcome the liberators with open arms!

Didn't quite work out that way, now did it?

[rfkrocks]

8. bullet proof vests kept fatalities down

but massive brain injuries are much higher than docs expected-saw an msnbc show on it-the brain trauma and amputees-its why we had 1,100 wounded in August-3 out of 4 were intensive care patients-battlefield medicine has gotten better but still can't replace the human brain

[LibDemAlways]

5. One death is one death too many

for the families involved.

I hate it when I hear "They are defending our freedom." No, they aren't. To the chimp, Cheney, and the PNACers, they are warm bodies sent to conquer and occupy a sovereign nation - no matter what the cost to the Iraqi people or the U.S. military. No soldier has died in Iraq defending the freedom of Americans. They have died for greed, Halliburton profits, and American imperialism. Plenty of blood on Bushco's hands.

[Dangerman]

7. "Combat deaths in Iraq were low."

WAH? One more reason why more Americans trust Crap News Network than any other cable news outlet, FAUX NEWS aside.