while it is interesting to see everyones theories on this being the worst war ever it is simply being blown slightly out of proportion. In the past 3 years 2500 US soldiers have been KIA. Of course 1 casualty is too many but to put it into perspective, 2500 or more per YEAR are murdered BY Americans on American soil in pursuit of NOTHING except maybe a few bucks out of someones wallet. Secondly, the numbers do not even COMPARE to Vietnam.

The violence over there is mainly between the citizens of Iraq. Suicide bombers, kidnapping, torture. All those things would be going on there whether we were there or not. It's the way they are. WE did not create the violence there. The violence there is the REASON we are there.

Now I do not condone war. No one should. War is a terrible thing. but all I have heard is what the wrong thing to do is. No one seems to have any ideas for the RIGHT thing to do. It is easy to talk about what should be done when you aren't the one that has to do it.