I'm too old, now.
I was in the Tx Army Nat'l Guard, many years ago. I would have had to go to Iraq, had I been younger.
And I would have.
Do you agree that in Iraq, the death rate is low, compared to past wars?
The term "cake walk" for dead and maimed American soldiers is the issue, not comparisons with previous wars. If I give you some email addresses of mothers, fathers, sisters, brothers, spouses and children of the dead, would you be so kind as to write them and tell them their loved-ones died in a "cake walk?"
The Battle of the Somme, 1916, France over a million dead in just six days. The outcome....the allies advanced a total of six miles.