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To: RetiredNow who wrote (2935)	9/7/2008 7:34:16 PM
From: longnshort	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 6579

bad spin, they thought their leader was an infallible god and they accepted democracy after 5000 years of a god led leadership. your family is not very bright

To: RetiredNow who wrote (2935)	9/7/2008 10:09:09 PM
From: Nicholas Thompson	1 Recommendation Respond to of 6579

Plus close to 200 american contractor lives and over 2 trillion more in associated costs. This war was, stupid, stupid, stupid. i

To: RetiredNow who wrote (2935)	9/8/2008 11:42:08 AM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 6579

Yes, and we had 350,000 American occupation forces in Japan by 1945 and still have close to 50,000 there today, as compared to less than 150,000 in Iraq since 2003. Japan had over 70 million people in 1945, Iraq has less than 30 million. Also our military tactics and organization at the time relied more on mass numbers of people. So you would expect a larger occupation force. OTOH Japan had been thoroughly crushed and burned and to an extent starved, and they had every reason to think that any serious opposition would be dealt with very harshly. They where more of a defeated people than Iraqis in general where, or the groups of Iraqis that we have fought. I doubt we'll get a decent return on the $800B we've already spent there...we'll never get those 4,150 American lives back either. Hard to say long term, but its no unreasonable to think that we won't. But that's sunk cost. You don't get that money back. The only question is whether we get a decent return on future spending and lives.