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Using your assumption, and one I wish not to share, but do...this would place this election not as a replay of the issues of a 1972 or 68...where getting out of the war was the issue, but of 64 where it was how far and how much. That means the end of this Middle East incursion, and there will be an end, will be many, many years away. Yep, then we look at that 10,000 figure.
Even in a protracted war, I think your number can be high considering the advances in medical science (we should emphazise the number maimed and injured) so many who used to die of wounds now survive...or at least parts of them. However, if this regime gets emblodened, re-institutes a draft and expands this endless war for war profiteering, then we could finally see some of the social upheaval we saw in the 60's.
I'm still not seeing the activity on college campuses I did in the 60's (especially the '65-67 era) that led to the rise in college unrest and social upheval. Sadly it's when this war really starts coming home...when virtually everyone knows a maimed or dead soldier that something may happen. I just wonder how far along this nation is to really being fed up with this invasion.
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