Is it wrong to cite military casualties in political arguments?

[Krasnaya Lastochka]

For example...is is wrong to try to defeat Bush by saying how many US and coalition forces and how many Iraqis have been killed in the war? Is it disrespectful to the dead?
On the other hand, if we can use these statistics as a way to help defeat the warmongering lunatic and stop the war, does that make it so that they died for something after all??? So the statistics don't have to get bigger?

[Eric J in MN]

1. I think it's ok. (nt)

nt

[tkulesa]

2. No.

If his foolish decisions killed those people then it damned well needs to be said.

[bryant69]

3. I think it's necessary

It's a matter of counting the cost. If everything they had said about Iraq were true, and it were in America's best interests, than those deaths would, unfortunately, be the cost of protecting ourselves. But since the opposite is true, than those men and women were sacrificed needlessly.

Bryant
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[Mayberry Machiavelli]

4. It's disrespectful to their memory to not hold shrub responsible for their

deaths.

[NuttyFluffers]

6. exactly, they are our people put in a nightmare situation.

our people, used as pawns for some stupid powergame, slaughtering other people whom we claim to 'liberate'... the situation demands that you *must* talk about them and their numbers when you talk about politics.

these are the dead, they want us remember their sacrifice and end the cycle. it is your moral responsibility to shout their memories from the rooftops and make sure no one is ever treated so callously again.

they have no voice now, we are their voice. speak for them, and speak loud.

[democrat in Tallahassee]

5. Chris Mathews just cited the 7,000 wounded and 1000 dead

on Hardball..

[Trajan]

7. SHeeesh

Should anyone complain that Hitler killed 6 Million jews ? ..

How bout the Cossacks ? ... shall anyone mention that Stalin killed a good 20 million of them ?? ...

Geezus ... what a lame question ...

If one cannot mention needless deaths: then what good is morality ?