On Mon, 29 Dec 2008 12:46:00 +0000, Richard Casady wrote:


Iraq a success? Far too much blood and treasure just to kill one
relatively harmless [outside his borders, at least] asshole. They should
have sent about four gunsels and had done with him.

I can't disagree. We've shed as much American blood bringing democracy
to Iraq, as we shed during our own Revolutionary War. So far, there are
a little over 4,200 American KIA in Iraq. During the Revolutionary War,
there were 4,435 KIA.