Flexible Quagmires

Woody on the Iraq War:

The MSM/DNC cabal has been focused like a laser beam on the negative since day one. Since before day one in fact. In past wars we've lost more men in a single battle than we have in the entire liberation of Iraq and yet somehow the American people think we are not winning.

Almost 62 years ago, the Allied forces began the liberation of Western Europe. On the very first day, June 6, 1944, the Allies landed approximately 156,000 troops in Normandy. In present times, the number of US troops in Iraq have numbered between 138,000 and 160,000. Thus, the numbers on D-Day and in Iraq are comparable.

How many Allied soldiers died on D-Day?
2500.

How many US troops have died in the Iraq War so far?
2466.

June 6, 1944 was three years of Iraqi quagmire wrapped in one day. Yet, we don't see a harmful portrayal of those twenty-four hours. Hundreds of thousands of Americans lost their lives to annihilate Nazism. We, rightly, honor their sacrifice.

Perhaps, a few decades down the road, the vast majority of Americans will appreciate the men who fight the evil of our age.

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[Ken Hoop]

www.commondreams.org/headlines06/0527-05.htm

at the same point in the occupation of Germany,
anti-American, un-democratic militias and terror squads did not control a third of the country
as is the case in Iraq.