Not trying to be clever It's a simple fact.
When we had a population of 100 million we could handle 3000 casaulties in an afternoon. Rome with a population of 10 million lost 30,000 in one day at Cannae.
The military isn't asking for all 300 million to be involved in the fight, thats why we HAVE a military. All they need is for us to have the will to back them in the fight.
Back them with what? simple facts?
Its not 3000, its 30,000 casualties of which almost 3000 are dead.
Our military is much smaller now than when we had 100 million people during WW2, or even smaller than Rome's.
Also, the American people can stomach casualties, what they don't continue to support is our troops fighting and getting nowhere. Remember the Iraqi Constitution states NO LAW SHALL CONTRADICT ISLAM. We are fighting for an Iraqi Constitution that mandates islam! Freedom can not exsist with islam only under it.
Bush continues to handcuff our troops with KGC warfighting rules of engagement, and he continues to allow Iran and Syria to kill our troops without firing one single shot.
The people got feed up with that.
No Blood for Islam.