Bar Graph of Death,, or life,, well actually Sentiment

Bar graph of death,, no Life,, well actually of American opinion of the war.



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If we could assume that the top bar graph (above) represented all the American people we could also safely assume that the second bar, just under that, could just about represent the percentage of Americans that want our fighting men and women in Iraq to have everything they need to keep them safe and effective for as long as they are there.

If we were to make a bar graph of Americans, relative to the “All Americans “ first graph, who believe that America can’t just vacate Iraq (in a mess we helped create) for fear of allowing a huge power struggle implosion to happen, I think the graph would look like this next one.

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The graph under that would, I think, roughly represent, fairly accurately, the number of Americans who also wish there was some way out, where not another American would lose their life. That there would be not one more family left with a big hole in it that is reopened every holiday and missing person’s birthday or anniversary.

The graph of people who think the Iraq war was a poor choice, either because we were not threatened by Saddam or because the loss of life, from all the countries involved, as a result of the trumped up rational for the war, would look roughly like this.

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The next graph is for those who think the “wish we weren’t there” group doesn’t understand the threat posed by the global ring of terrorists. They like to say “fight them over there and not here” (which doesn’t hold any water). They also like to say that those who think our presence is gaining little good while exposing our troops to too much harm are somehow aiding the enemy.

The last graph (invisible above) represents those who feel we should tell all of Arabia and the world that we want just two months to clean up, fix up, and set up whatever we can and then we’re out. We would have to stipulate that if anyone who says they want us out decides to blow something up we reserve the right to start the two months over again but that if they really want us out like they say, they should stop their attacks.

For two months. Of course so far that graph represents only me which is why it is not yet visible but maybe if we can’t start a national “two more months” chant we can get out a little early. Then we can look hard at the people who got us into this war.

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