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Captain Zero

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7. It's like a war

Reply to Garion_55 (Reply #5)

Sat May 23, 2020, 04:11 AM

May 2020

Where we are losing lots of troops quickly. The Second War in Iraq started March 3, 2003. This pandemic started around that date. In 2003 if we had lost 100k troops by Memorial Day, we would have been in shock.

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What I haven't heard talked about [View all] BittyJenkins May 2020 OP

But he ordered flags flown at half staff for them Rorey May 2020 #1

He was probably forced to by White House aids madaboutharry May 2020 #2

Biden suggested doing this when he was interviewed murielm99 May 2020 #6

Only after having his arm twisted by Chuck and Nancy. smirkymonkey May 2020 #9

What I read about a week ago is the Nancy and Chuck asked him to lower the flags. BittyJenkins May 2020 #12

Memorial Day weekend 2020... cayugafalls May 2020 #3

dumpie quote "why in the hell should I lower flags for people I never met?" KS Toronado May 2020 #4

and we could be at 250k on election day. Garion_55 May 2020 #5

It's like a war Captain Zero May 2020 #7

+1, ... and all of this could've been avoided with a federated test/trace/quarantine process. uponit7771 May 2020 #11

This is exactly why yuiyoshida May 2020 #8

Wonders why NYT and other major papers don't post a running list of the names of the dead. gibraltar72 May 2020 #10