"Really? So we took the entire country of Vietnam with less than 2K Soldiers doing it?"
You didn't take Vietnam and you haven't taken Iraq yet either, judging by the resistance still going on two years after you started. That less than 2K figure is going to go way over 2K before the next election in 2008 if the Bush man gets his way and all we do is continue the same tactics.....unless the rest of the ruling body sobers up before then, he'll leave us in Iraq until 2008 because he won't admit the futility of the effort, then he'll leave office and let Iraq be the next guys mess.
You make that "less than 2K" figure sound like a real bargain, but it doesn't factor in that you guys will still be driving armored convoys around for years just to go across town in this so-called "liberated" free country.
"What year did we hold free elections in Vietnam?"
Didn't hold them in Vietnam, we spent ten years fighting guerilla warfare, took over 50K casualties (probably a bargain in some people's world) and then let them fight thier own civil war....
You guys might have held free elections in Iraq, but they won't mean squat if the police keep getting murdered by suicide bombers right and left and the politicians get murdered in thier own driveway. You make these free elections sound like an impenetrable force to be reckoned with like some NORAD installation buried in the mountains, when in fact they are a weak skeleton that's being held together rather loosely and only by the use of military force. Pull out a week from now if you really want to see how weak and fragile this "free election" and it's members are. They'd fall about as quickly as Saigon did.
"48% were stupid enough to vote for Kerry."
Kerry wasn't a shining star to vote for any more than Bush was......it would appear than 52% of the people were actually idiots for thinking Bush was religious and that he actually cared about this country.
$2 trillion added to the national credit card and about 2.5 years more for the shrub to spend the same way and probably double the body count in Iraq.
