The press is complicite in the deaths of our troops at the very least by hyping our enemies' strength and ignoring our successes - intentionally undermining morale at home and, more importantly, in Iraq.
The President did not declare early victory, simply the end of major combat ops, which it was.
The similarity to Vietnam is a deceitful left-press-Hollywood siding with our enemies.
The greatest number of post-Baghdad Liberation Day casualties due to hostile acts was 28 - in July - during a month of major aggressive operations where we took out MANY bad guys, and the death of the Hussein boys....out of then ~ 150,000 US troops on the ground in a country the size of California.
The casaulty rate has remained relatively steady and so low that a car accident skews the totals, so forgive me if, after 6 months of daily, destructive lies from the left-press, I am not applauding this Democrat for this late, faint praise. The left is guilty. It's dawning on some of them, I think, that they were always on the wrong side in this war.
The Iraqi people, the troops, and many around the world are getting their news elsewhere. We know what Saddam did to the Iraqi people. We know that everyone calling for the UN to run things cares nothing about the wishes of the Iraqi people, the history of the UN in Iraq...or the US Constitution.
The left, not the troops, the President or the DoD, has some explaining and apologizing to do to the troops, the President, the DoD, the Iraqi people...and the free world.
I'm willing to forgive if they change their ways, give the troops everything they need to get the job done in Iraq, quit trying to push the hapless UN on the Iraqi people. It is not their will and it mocks every Soldier's sacrifice. Start reporting the truth from Iraq, fire the reporters who were on Saddam's payroll. That's a start.
Imho, lol.