Clinton death toll higher than Iraq war
Right Wing News quotes Alicia Colon at the NYSun:
“The total military dead in the Iraq war between 2003 and this month stands at about 3,133. This is tragic, as are all deaths due to war, and we are facing a cowardly enemy unlike any other in our past that hides behind innocent citizens. Each death is blazoned in the headlines of newspapers and Internet sites. What is never compared is the number of military deaths during the Clinton administration: 1,245 in 1993; 1,109 in 1994; 1,055 in 1995; 1,008 in 1996. That’s 4,417 deaths in peacetime but, of course, who’s counting?”  ~nysun.com
Except that there wasn’t a daily death count during the Clinton Administration. Had there been, I’m sure that the Clinton Presidency would have been despised by democrats as the worst President ever. Right? Surely. Democrats would have mounted a concerted attack against Clinton as a warmongering evil no good misfit of a President. Right? Right?
Sadly, this is not the case. Democrats and the left are
Perhaps the most touching reappraisal of an anti-war position was penned by Pat Conroy, author of “The Great Santini,” who wrote, “An Honest Confession of an American Coward.” He admitted being a draft dodger and an antiwar demonstrator to an old college teammate, Al Kroboth, whom he was interviewing for a book he was writing. Mr. Kroboth had been a POW and Mr. Conroy learned the details of his experience. Mr. Kroboth endured unspeakable pain while being tortured by his captors, yet he was saved by the extraordinary camaraderie among his fellow prisoners. As Mr. Conroy was demonstrating against Nixon and the Christmas bombings in Hanoi, the POWs were holding hands and singing “God Bless America” under the full fury of the bombs. It was those bombs that ultimately led to the release of the POWs.
After that night in Mr. Kroboth’s New Jersey home, Pat Conroy researched the history of world totalitarianism during what he calls “the unspeakable century we just left behind.” He concluded about our country: “I knew then in my bones but lacked the courage to act on: America is good enough to die for even when she is wrong.“Â ~nysun.com
Maybe there is hope for some liberals.