We haven't? At last count, over 700 dead and nearly 4,000 injured. That's 5,000 casualties -- that would be "thousands," no?
Sorry, I was referring to war dead.
I, for one, wasn't expecting this many casualties -- I expected that we'd have an easy war (read: "major combat operations") and that we'd pull out soon after the "major combat operations" were over, and not stick around for the aftermath.
I would guess you are young and haven't seen what war can be, where the body count is part of the daily news cycle. It is tragic. But let's remember that we lost 26,000 men taking Iwo Jima. This war, when it is over, will still be the most humane substantial war ever fought.
What we've got now is the worst of all worlds -- we've "broken" Iraq, and remain there without enough troops or international support to fix it. So, Iraqis continue to die, and U.S. troops continue to die.
I think it looks bad now. These things take time, we'll see where we are a year from now.
For the record, I would go to prison before going to Iraq
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