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Old 04-28-2016, 01:32 PM  
Rochard
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Originally Posted by nico-t View Post
you're a fool. Nowadays drones and satellites is why the number of soldiers in ground war is low compared to the 2nd world war. The scope of this "non-war" is fucking huge and it is constantly ongoing since the invasion in iraq in 2003. Its now 2016 - 13 years later - and the islam extremists from the destructed middle east have never been more active in the western world as right now. But you don't think this is a war.
I disagree. It's not like we have hundreds of drones in Iraq; If at all we might have a dozen. Planes and boots the ground still do the heavy lifting.

I don't believe this is a "constantly ongoing war". The United States lost six lives in Iraq in 2015. Out of those six, four of them were listed at "non hostile" - That means they had a car accident or a heart attack.

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Tell that to the families of the killed soldiers AND civilians over these 13 years. Don't think they will agree with you. I don't think anyone with half a brain will agree with you.
Please trust me when I tell you I am disappointed any time the United States sends it's military into action. I understand more than most the losses suffered by military families. My father died in Vietnam when I was nine months old.
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