I'm shocked to see that pig, Ellsberg, is still here, after all these years.
Anybody care to calculate how many years it will take to lose 58,000 American troops in Iraq at the current rate?
Why the present rate. Sure at 80 dead a month it would takes us over 50 years. But in a lot less time than that the moslem terrorists will have nukes and then our casualties will make Vietnam look insignificant, we will lose 58,000 in one day.
President Bush needs to do a Harriet 180 from his present kinder gentler compassionate war fighting and get WW2 on these folks. Right now the rules of engagement are very much like Vietnam.
When a possible car bomber comes at you, they want you to make hand signals, throw flash bangs, aim for the engine, aim for the empty passenger side, then shoot the driver. And that is just car bombers.
Just like Vietnam our President allows the terrorist that kill our troops sanctuary in Syria and Iran. Actually its worse than Vietnam because at least LBJ/Nixon bombed Laos and Cambodia. Pres. Bush doesn't even lift a finger against Iran or Syria.
http://www.slate.com/id/2111432/ Adjusting body counts -
The scale can be further balanced. In 1966, U.S. troops in Vietnam numbered 385,000. In 2004, the figure in Iraq has averaged roughly 142,000. Comparing the burden shouldered by individual soldiers in both conflicts raises the 2004 "constant casualty" figure in Iraq to 3,065 KIA
"While the North Vietnamese fought a coordinated defensive battle for Hue City until they were annihilated, the terrorists in Fallujah fought in small packs, hiding among the tens of thousands of structures in the "city of mosques." In the three-week battle for Hue, 147 Marines were killed and 857 wounded. In the twin battles for Fallujah, more than 104 soldiers and Marines have been killed and more than 1,100 wounded in a battle that will continue to take lives, like the three Marines who encountered yet another pocket of fighters last week. "
In both Hue and Fallujah, air power was not used so as to save historic/religious structures. We should have leveled both places. Kinder gentler compassionate may work in politics but not in war.
In Vietnam, right up to the day that North Vietnamese troops walked into Saigon to the cheering crowds of Saigonese, the United States had the support of most Vietnamese. Tagline: