What war?
The Tribune's Matt LaPlante reports that about 75 Utahns showed up for a commemoration of the five year anniversary of the Iraq War and the almost 4,000 Americans who died there.One-half decade and more than a million deployments later, many in the U.S. military complain that, while they remain very much at war, many other Americans remain very much oblivious. Just one in four Americans know that nearly 4,000 U.S. service members have died in Iraq, according to a recent survey by the Pew Research Center for People and the Press. Respondents in the survey were given four answers from which to choose — meaning a randomly selected answer would have been just as accurate.Paul Rieckhoff, an Iraq vet and director of Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America says, that less than one-half of one percent of Americans have served in Iraq and Afghanistan, while in In World War II, it was 12 percent. "That's the difference right there."
Says Rieckhoff: "No matter where you stand on the war, the very basic way to support the troops is to pay attention to the war."Above: Iraq veteran Jeff Key remembers the war.
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People don't show up because the whole country is at the point of cringing, "Please, just make it stop!" Not just the war, the whole sorry Bush/Republican mis-administration. Just like he's done with everything he's ever touched--a reverse Midas effect--he's run the whole country into the ground while he stands around with that "what, me worry?" smirk and thinks he's doing a "heckuva job."
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