[gitmo]

"I have a responsibility to the troops," Pelosi claimed. "We owe them at least a fair fight when they go into battle for us."

Chronicling the Casualties

Percentages of personnel injured or killed among the totals that served in major American conflicts (in descending order):

Civil War (Union forces): 29%

Mexican War: 22%

War of Independence: 11.6%

Korean War: 7.8%

World War I: 6.8%

World War II: 6.6%

Vietnam War: 6.2%

Philippine War: 5.6%

War of 1812: 2.3%

Iraq war: 1.5-2.5%

Spanish-American War: 1.3%

1991 Persian Gulf War: 0.14%

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[Paulus Invictus]

I've often wondered why the left did not complain so much about Korea as they did VN. Could it be that they did not realize how costly in American lives that deadly war really was? They didn't even call it a war, but a "Police Action." How absurd. I lost friends there and regret to this day that the RATs refused to let us win that one either, as they surely did in VN.

[paulsy]

Or put another way, as tragic as combat losses are for the friends and families of those killed (and for all of us really), for combat deaths in the Iraq war to equal those in WW2, they would have to continue at their current rate for another 850 years.