thats 22,720 IN ONE DAY!
get the point?
Here is a web site which might help with the perspective issue...
Lots of historical recorded deaths due to wars and disease.
http://users.erols.com/mwhite28/20centry.htm
YOu're all missing the point. It's not that 3,000 was too high of a price. I was calling for more military boldness. The point is that the war keeps dragging on, because there was never a plan for how to demilitarize the terrorists. We were caught completly off-guard by the enemy's simple act of removing their uniforms. There simply WAS no clean-up operation. And to this day, after we clear out a city, we let the terrorists move right back into it.