[Frumious Bandersnatch]

Okay, let's put that 1700+ kia in perspective. During the same time period, more people died in homicides (wherein guns were used) in L.A. county (between 600 and 700 people are involved with homicides with guns in L.A. county each year.). In 2001, it was over 700.

Where is the media on this story? Also, let's consider that nearly 50,000 people die in auto deaths each year in the U.S. considering current death rates in Iraq, we'd have to be there 75+ years before even coming close to approaching the death rate of one typical year of car accidents here in the U.S.

So which story gets the most attention in the MSM? Of course the one in which the number of deaths is the least.

Isn't there something somewhere about "First, heal thyself physicion...?"

[NHAntiMassRedRebel]

I agree with you that this isn't a "quagmire" by any means at all. We lost 3,000+ in a single battle in Korea and had more injuries weekly in 'Nam than the entire OIF rotations.

Just the same, set a deadline, work like hell to get it done by then, and get the hell out. Or go back to a draft.