About 13,000 Iraqis, including as many as 4,300 civilians, were killed during the major combat phase of the Iraq war, according to a US research group.





So, you think the largest most powerful country (your words) invaded a country of 25,000,000 people, and was only able to kill 13,000 Iraqis, because we were trying to kill civilians?



And if you weren't so disingenuous, it would be really funny. You are so concerned about these statistics, as if these lives are valuable to you, but you don't give a d*** about the 500,000 found in mass graves in Iraq. Or the fact that more than 30,000 a year were being killed by Saddam. (Estimates were 36,000 to 72,000 before the war, and the UN said that it turned out to be a lot worse than these estimates.) Why don't those lives matter to you? Why aren't you in total support of this war, since it has already saved far more lives than it has cost?





I also hope that you are not only not an American, but that you didn't learn such things in an American school. I know some of our schools are pretty bad, but I hope they aren't that bad!



Why because I disagree with you?



No, I don't mind when people disagree. I do mind when people can't reason better, and I hope our schools produce people with better reasoning ability.



To bad every ones Momma And Daddy cant send them to a "Christian Private School"



I agree with you on that one. They consistently outperform public schools, and while only spending about 2/3 as much as public schools do per student. The students are taught how to think and reason, instead of what to think. The students are much more intelligent and well read. We spend over 1/2 our state budget on schools that don't perform well. Imagine saving 1/3 of 50 billion dollars every year, and getting higher quality education at the same time. California could eliminate the budget problems we got into with our very liberal legislature, our last democrat Governor Davis, and our energy problems all in one swoop! Unfortunately, it is too bad everyone can't do this. I know atheists that send their kids to Christian or Catholic schools for this reason. Personally, I have never even been on the premises of a private school, that I am aware of. Maybe if I had gone to one, I wouldn't have been at the top of my class in math and the sciences, because of "better" competition.



Are you going to tell me America does not, or has not ever been involved in terrorist activities? That America does not or has not FINANCED other terrorist countries?



No, not at all. When there are two possible outcomes in a conflict, I think that America always tries for the "lesser of two evils". Would you prefer that the US let the greater evil prevail, just so we don't support the lesser? What kind of world would that be? But today, terrorism is much more dangerous than it used to be. Times change and we have to change with them.



(by the way, I haven't even heard Rush in about 4 years, except for his problems on the news. What ever happened to his hearing problems? Did they go away? It would be pretty hard to do a show without being able to hear the callers or himself. I am happy to hear he is still out there though. It's nice to hear both sides of an issue once in a while, instead of just the liberal media's viewpoint.)



Rodney

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