March 24, 2008


1,200,000

Filed under: Abortion, Iraq
By Feddie (Email) @ 1:50 pm

Dead x 1.2 million.

This post is in response to this one over at Obsidian Wings.

Every death is tragic. And I have nothing but the utmost respect for the brave men and women who have sacrificed their lives so that others may experience the same freedom/liberties that Americans do. But I confess that I find it hard to take liberals seriously when the highlight the deaths of our soldiers in Iraq every chance they get, yet turn a blind eye to the wholesale slaughter of 1.2 million unborn children every year here in the United States.

Were one inclined to view such matters uncharitably, one might conclude that some liberals only highlight the tragic deaths of our soliders for the purpose of scoring cheap political points.


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  1. Elizabeth Says:
    March 24th, 2008 at 4:04 pm

    Amen!

    Glad you’re back in the blogosphere!

    Top Shelf

  2. Scott Says:
    March 24th, 2008 at 6:51 pm

    I consider myself liberal in most things but I think any loss of life is a tragic waste. In the case of soldiers, they volunteered for a job that has a foreseeable risk of death. They chose to be soldiers (arguably some of them probably had little other choice in life). The unborn and Iraqis, on the other hand, have no such choice. They are being killed by others beyond their control.

  3. Joel Leggett Says:
    March 24th, 2008 at 7:49 pm

    Scott,

    I understand and appreciate your sensitivity to the loss of human life. Furthermore, I think that most of us share that same sensitivity to one degree or another. Nevertheless, I would like to point out a few things.

    First of all, everyone that wears the uniform of this country does so voluntarily. Nobody forced them on any level to enlist. If someone enlists because they want to access the benefits the military offers then that was their choice. No matter what reasons inform a person’s decision to enlist it does a great injustice to their decision to claim that they had little or no choice. Every man and woman that risks their life in service to this country deserves more respect for their decision to serve than that.

    Secondly, a significant number of those dead Iraqis were killed because they were trying to kill American servicemen and women. They are directly and personally responsible for what befell them. I shed no tears for them. A no less significant number of Iraqis were killed by insurgents and terrorists. I knew some of them personally and feel sorrow for their loss. I feel sorrow for all those innocent Iraqis that have lost their lives.

    I have no tolerance for anti-war activists that want to use servicemember deaths as a prop in their arguments. I have seen how so many of them dishonor and malign the troops in their demonstrations. I have no illusions that they care one iota about the individual soldier, sailor, or Marine.

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