Reply #18: If you think only 100 fallujahns have died.... [View All]

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you'd be wrong.

US losses haven't been "significant" from a military perspective in the entire war. July 1, 1916, at the Somme, THAT was militarily significant casualties(58,000 casualties in a single day on one side, almost 20,000 dead). I'm not trying to make light at the number of casualties, but less than a thousand dead in a year of combat operations? From a military perspective, that's not significant. It's only from a human perspective that it's significant. From a human perspective, each death is a tragedy. The military doesn't necessarily think that way. Remember the old military axiom: "War means fighting, fighting means killing." I'd bet money that if you asked the average jarhead in Fallujah what the situation currently is, they'd say something along the lines of "we're kicking their asses."