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U.S. Military death toll in Iraq; ...passes death toll of 9/11
Topic Started: Dec 26 2006, 07:01 AM (252 Views)
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http://apnews.myway.com/article/20061226/D8M8AVJG0.html
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George K
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Pelosi: No Link Between Iraq and 9/11 Body Counts
by Scott Ott

(2006-12-26) — As news broke that the 2,974th member of the U.S. military had died in Iraq this week, pushing the U.S. death toll beyond the number who died in the 9/11 terror attacks, House Speaker-elect Nancy Pelosi, D-CA, rejected theories of a connection between the Iraq and 9/11 death tolls.

“It makes no sense to compare the body counts,” said Rep. Pelosi. “Saddam Hussein did not knock down the World Trade Center or hit the Pentagon. So, anyone who touts a link between what al Qaeda did on our soil in 2001 and what al Qaeda and other Islamic terrorists are doing now on Iraqi soil is a conspiracy theorist and fraud. There is no relevant connection.”

The lawmaker noted that “while U.S. troops are dying in Iraq because President George Bush has placed them in harm’s way for an ultimately meaningless and impossible cause, the 9/11 victims perished because of President Bush’s failure to reach out to radical Muslims, understand their grievances and find common ground during his first nine months in the White House.”

She encouraged all Americans to ignore the “body-count comparison stories” because, “as everyone knows, there’s no linkage between Iraq and 9/11 — other than they’re both Bush’s fault.”
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“It makes no sense to compare the body counts,” said Rep. Pelosi.


Damn straight. Any more than it makes sense to compare body counts at Pearl Harbor with the number of soldiers who died in WWII.
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I should have qualified that.

Scott Ott writes satire. Those are not actual quotes.
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:lol: :lol:

Sorry Quirt, but I love it when that happens.
What do you mean "we", have you got a mouse in your pocket?
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I figured Quirt already knew that and was just quoting her to make the same point he would have made anyway.
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Indeed.

Isn't Ott from the Onion?
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Dang, Quirt, you have a cheerleader! I didn't know 89th had it in him! :lol2:
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No cheerleading, just being honest. That's why my friends call me whiskers.
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Dec 27 2006, 09:12 AM
I figured Quirt already knew that and was just quoting her to make the same point he would have made anyway.

The funny thing is Ott's Pelosi quotes do sound exactly like things she would have said before the November election.
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Whiskers? :confused:
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I linked to a video of Will Ferrel as Harry Carry on SNL...near the end he makes a statement about being a worrier and so his friends call him whiskers. Dont worry...it's not supposed to make sense.
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Scott Ott is the founder of Scrappleface, the source of much sarcasm.
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