Can all those Iraq critics please keep in mind that Americans are the ones bearing the cost in blood and treasure? In a thread since locked and edited >>
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>>> Timberlandko, who fought in Vietnam and currently has a son in Iraq (USMC), wrote the following (in response to a Q from me) and his passage bears repeating:
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"Gotta say too that comparin' "Fallujah et al" to Khe San is sorta like comparin' a squabble over a parkin' space to a full-blown riot. Not to dismiss the tragedy of any death, but from a purely operational perspective, overall own-force casualties to date in Afghanistan and Iraq combined are militarily insignificant. For an instance truly representative of slaughterin' Marines, I refer you to Tarawa. I wasn't there, but my dad was. And his dad heard Gunny Dan Daly shout "C'mon, you sons-o-bitches! Do ya wanna live forever?" at Belleau Wood 25 years before that. Its a matter of perspective.
Thanks for thinkin' of my son. I appreciate that. "
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Btw, Boxer was out of line in blaming Rice for mistakes made by the intel folks and mistakes of the Pentagon - Rice didn't handle those, then or now. Does Boxer have any better ideas for how to extricate ourselves from Iraq? Kerry didn't.