"I fear my country is becoming a nation of spineless appeasers... fat, happy self-involved nimrods who don't believe that liberty (or anything else) is worth fighting for." Too late peace axeman
Still trying to justify the war and the dead by using Vietnam as a benchmark? Sad.... U.S. War Dead in Iraq Exceed Early Vietnam Years By David Morgan PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) - The U.S. death toll in Iraq has surpassed the number of American soldiers killed during the first three years of the Vietnam War, the brutal Cold War conflict that cast a shadow over U.S. affairs for more than a generation. A Reuters analysis of Defense Department statistics showed on Thursday that the Vietnam War, which the Army says officially began on Dec. 11, 1961, produced a combined 392 fatal casualties from 1962 through 1964, when American troop levels in Indochina stood at just over 17,000. By comparison, a roadside bomb attack that killed a soldier in Baghdad on Wednesday brought to 397 the tally of American dead in Iraq, where U.S. forces currently number about 130,000 troops -- the same number reached in Vietnam by October 1965. http://news.lycos.com/news/story.asp?section=MyLycos&storyId=798648
1-3 is probably true, but no one in Wash. DC really gives a damn about the Iraqis other than to use their plight as a justification for interention. Perhaps you are a true humanitarian warrior, in which case get busy: you have 50 countries to invade to elliminate gross human rights violations.