To calculate this precise date would seem a tad petulant, but as we know, the leftist media could not have been more childish toward George W. Bush when he was presiding over the War on Terrorism.  Nevertheless, it is a complete waste of time to agonize over numbers, so we at the Ever Red State have set a date for our new anti-war campaign, titled "OBAMA LIED, KIDS DIED."

As of May 1, 2009, the Ever Red State will begin compiling a body count of casualties, whether injuries or deaths, that could have been avoided if Obama had kept his campaign promise to withdraw within sixteen months.  This count will be retroactive to twelve months prior to the promised exit date that would constitute a fulfillment of the 16-month promise: April 30, 2010.  The logic used here is simple: if Obama had kept his promise, the soldiers who will die after May 1st might not have died serving on a deployment that would last beyond the date of the campaign promise, for they would not have been deployed according to the same schedule.  Like the left, we will not query whether some of those casualties were scheduled to return home prior to April 2010; we will simply categorize them as though they had just arrived in theater.

This will also include all injuries and deaths sustained by the US among Obama's residual force of 30-50,000 troops left in Iraq after "the end of combat missions in August 2010."  It is truly funny to hear an American president declare the end to a war eighteen months before US forces actually withdraw!  (At least, the leftist media always thought it was funny when Bush did it).  We will also include an exaggerated list of the "hundreds of thousands" of Iraqi civilians killed in the crossfire, whether substantiated or not.

US Marine Corps deaths and injuries will begin to tally on 1 November 2009, in accordance with their general deployment lengths of 7-9 months.  The Navy and Air Force ... well, the Ever Red State is hosted by a soldier.  So since the Navy and Air Force don't really do anything, snicker snicker, their deaths and injuries will be assimilated into the Marine and Army body counts, respectively.

Now, for your leftists who want to scream and point the finger and say, "See!  You're a conservative and you're not supporting the troops either!", I say, "Tut, tut!  I support VICTORY.  This is surrender."  You see, by declaring an end date for combat operations, our Commander-in-Chief has essentially consigned our remaining casualties to being wounded or dying unnecessarily in a war we have already decided to be over.  NOW we are truly spilling blood for nothing; NOW we are wasting precious American blood on a battlefield where there is no purpose in fighting any further.

President Obama has declared this war over; the only reason he has postponed the date is because he can't be seen to be losing the war in an election year.  That is also why he has carefully worded his declaration to include the option of changing the strategy per the national security interests of the United States.  Only this time, those national security interests are primarily concerned with further entrenching the Democrat Party in Congress in 2010, and Mr. Obama himself in the White House in 2012.

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