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In the interest of balance, you did pick two of the worst months in the Korean War (I believe your choices covered the Inchon landings/first re-capture of Seoul and the Chinese offensive)

Whichever month Democrats choose, Democrats can't get around the fact that more men died in one month of Truman's War than in all the months of Bush's War.

If 3,000 deaths is some "magic cutoff point" for support for a war, Truman should have withdrawn his troops within a couple of months of sending them there.

It's 'telling" that the news services didn't detail the thousands of deaths in Korea, or the mass evacuations of troops and citizens. (I'm not sure...I'm just learning about the Korean War....did I read that a million Korean civilians died?)

Did NBC read the names, over the air, of all 781 Americans who died on November 30, 1950?

How about the 621 Americans who died on November 28, 1950

No?

Maybe that's because the numbers are truly overwhelming, even when pictures aren't attached to the names!

Try to imagine a photograph (using a zoom lens of course) of 781 flag-draped coffins!!

At any rate, I'll be glad to reword my statistics.

10 times as many Americans were killed in "Truman's Korean War," in 2 1/2 years,
as were killed in
all the years of "Bush's Iraq War."

If 3,000 deaths is some "magic cutoff point" for support for a war, Truman should have withdrawn his troops within a couple of months of sending them there.

Correction:

If 3,000 deaths is some "magic cutoff point" for support for a war, Truman should have withdrawn his troops from Korea within 35 days of sending them there.