What HAS changed is that these casualty counts have accumulated over time, and a war that was going on for 1.5 years in 2004 is now going on for 3.5 years -- with no real change in prospects readily apparent to people on BOTH sides of the issue.
The greatest failure of Rumsfield was after the 2004 election we could have boosted US troop levels, increased the size of the Army, and got rid of the Madhi Army and really cleaned out Western Iraq.
Instead he continued to believe this less is more idea of warfare which allowed Zarqawi to finally spark a major sectarian conflict in Iraq making stabilizing the country much harder and making the war much less popular in the US.
Rumsfield should be removed as such general Abaizad who also believes in the Rumsfield docterine.
"What HAS changed is that these casualty counts have accumulated over time, and a war that was going on for 1.5 years in 2004 is now going on for 3.5 years -- with no real change in prospects readily apparent to people on BOTH sides of the issue."
This is exactly the opinion that the media has been grooming in the minds of the gullible electorate.(including you) The only thing missing is someone tossing their medals over the whitehouse fence.
It worked, they won the election for the democrats.