More US dead in Iraq/Afghanistan than 9/11

September 3, 2006Not much of a peep about this in "the news."

Not much of a peep about this in "the news." The 9/11 attacks killed 2,973 people, not including the 19 hijackers who crashed four commercial airliners into the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and a field in Pennsylvania. The number of troops and military contractors who have died in Iraq and Afghanistan has now reached 2,974....

Have the deaths of these soldiers made us safer?

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Bush says Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11: Tell that to the Troops

Jeff Thomas's blog, Alaska Free Press

... An overwhelming majority of 72% of American troops serving in Iraq think the U.S. should exit the country within the next year, and more than one in four say the troops should leave immediately, a new Le Moyne College/Zogby International survey shows.... While 85% said the U.S. mission is mainly "to retaliate for Saddam's role in the 9-11 attacks," 77% said they also believe the main or a major reason for the war was "to stop Saddam from protecting al Qaeda in Iraq." (Both False: Saddam had no ties to al-Qaeda, no role in 9/11)...

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