5 Years On: Is Iraq War Only Half-Over?
3,988 Dead, More Than 60,000 Wounded, A Projected Cost Of $2 Trillion — What Is America's Continued Role?


http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/...n3941693.shtml

Just half over????????A bunch of ill equipped insurgents who make home made weapons with their own hands pose such a huge challenge to the mightest and strongest army the world has ever seen..................difficult to digest.
Seems glory has been lost forever...........

Please read the other threads on this. It has been explained. The discussion then degraded into a flame fest, where one side refuses to actually read. But any way. This is far from the deadliest war. The American Civil war had over 620000 soldier deaths, and an unknown number of civilian deaths.

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Ill equipped insurgents using 500 lb bombs? This is also not conventional warfare, it's more guerilla than anything. The US military is still very strong.

While I don't agree with the Iraq war, all the pessimism regarding it seems a little overblown.

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This is far from the deadliest war America has ever fought. more Americans died in the Civil War, than in all other wars up to 10 years in Vietnam combinged

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LOL

This is a great example of why I say the Left is incapable of fighting anyone on this planet.

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Although Iraq in my mind everyday annoys me, I fail to see how WW2 was worse than the Iraq debacle we are in atm......

Sure, the end may be near, but we managed to defeat Hitler and Tojo in less time....

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We also had a lot of frigging help during WWII. Our fair weather friends kind of kicked us to the curb here.
But then again we defeated Saddam in record time. It is the rest of it that is taking time.

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Right, the only real big ally we are missing from the winning trio of WW2 is Russia. Britain (unless you have forgotten) is in Basra and Afghanistan. The British also seem to have more of a hold than the Americans. The American's can thank this current wave of 'stability' if you can call it that to the British. Why? Because the American's are using tactics that the British military developed over hundreds of years with its own Imperial occupations.

Sure, we defeated Saddam, but we left the country intact. Wanna know why the Germans stopped resisting? Cuz we bombed the whole country to dust and then when they admitted total defeat, thats when we started giving them money.

I'm not saying our tactics are not gonna work, but, we left them with too much stuff in their own hands, which they are now using to fuel their insurgency.

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Everyone who continues to say the "Left" or the "Dems" are soft when it comes to war have amnesia with regards to history for godsakes.

And I'm not even on the "Left" or a "Dem". Just someone that's paid attention to history.

It is not just the big allies. Every bit counts, and them not helping is one thing that seriously hinders the progress.

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