I stand totally chagrined, the figure I quoted was for UNION FORCES ONLY. the nerve of the compiler to not add Confederate forces, as if they were not American also, damn them for not doing that! father killing son, brother, killing brother!

So invite a rapist, child molester, drug addict, murderer, necrophiliac, cannibal intro your home for dinner, after all, all life is precious! hypocrite!

"So invite a rapist, child molester, drug addict, murderer, necrophiliac, cannibal intro your home for dinner, after all, all life is precious! hypocrite!"

I said all life is precious, therefore I wouldn't take it, because all life is important, and has worth. This has nothing to do about friday evening social gatherings, so I'd appreciate it if you would stay on topic.

To add more:

You can hold all life as precious, cherish life, and dislike the act comitted, as I do. Doesn't mean I support their acts, in fact I detest the act of molestation/abusing of children,  (especially them), rapist, murder, etc...

But, I recognize that they're still a life, they're still human, and while yes they broke the law, legal and otherwise - they are still human.

If we continue seeing people as nothing more than their deeds, even the most horrible ones, you forget that they're human. You lose compassion, and a sense of humanity. In the end, they're just turned into evil, horrible people. Where's the person that says, "Yes it was horrible what they did, but they're human still, and there's obviously something that caused the act. What is it?"

Also, like i said above, this isn't about a social gathering.

Staying on topic coming from someone that almost never stays on topic, you have so much nerve it is a joke, the topic was deaths in war and comparing this war to other wars. so you stay on topic, I happen to believe that not all life is precious, people that blow up chil;dren, while they stay safe themself are scumbags and to me not worth spit.

What you quoted was one of the biggest tarfu ever, Bush made one of the biggest mistakes ever and our troops paid for it in blood and are still are paying for it in blood.

BTW NEVER make the mistake of telling me what to do in my own blog, here I do what I please, if you do not like it do not comment! next time you try to tell me how to conduct myself in my own blog you are gone. Got it? As it is I am one of a very few people that TOLERATE your presence Lucas.

Sorry, I can't agree with that.  Life is precious, I will agree with.  However, saying all life is precious is going to far.  Child rapists, terrorists, torturers, and similar ilk debase the value of their own life with their actions untill its nil.  I'm not going to run around murdering them myself -- that would be just as wrong as their own acts --  but neither am I going to cry crocodiile tears because they got "what was coming" to them in a legitimate manner.

Please note the legitimate; I'm not advocating whole sale executions of them, either.  I'm simply saying that their own acts have removed them from the "precious" category.  In essance, I'm ranting because that phrase is yet another of a million over simplifications that drive me insane.

In addition, please consider the following bit of philosophy.  All life ends.  Death is one of the very few true constants in life.  Life, in fact, is based in death.  When we die, bacteria will consume us, scavengers may very well ravage us.  The food we eat is borne of that death; plants are fed by the rotted remains of other living things.  No form of life escapes the simple constant that for us to live, others must die.  Death, therefore, can not be considered evil.  It simply is.  What remains is how we die, and what we do before we die.

Thank you! for understanding exactly the point I was trying to make to a bleeding heart.

From which war college did you get your degree on how to wage war?