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Conservatives complained that Bill Clinton gutted the military and left it unable to fight a war.
Yet Bush WENT TO WAR with Clinton's army, and now has troops in Afghanistan and Iraq without major increase in the army personnel.

And now, REPEATEDLY we see that Bush can't plan for the military actions he requests. He is demonstrating GROSS strategic flaws in his manning of the military actions.
He went to war with Iraq, and in that "planning" for the war Rumsfield SPECIFICALLY STATED that no post-war planning should be done.

Over and over again, Bush demonstrates that he needs to wake the hell up and take a new tactic.


Sixty-one percent now say the war was not worth fighting, a number that tops six in 10 for only the third time since the ABC News/Washington Post polls began. Driven down by that discontent, Bush's overall job approval rating stands at just 36 percent, while 62 percent disapprove — the second-worst rating of his career and this time without soaring gasoline prices to blame.
ABC News: Americans Doubt Bush Will Change Course in Iraq

What other war has America fought for 5 years with this low amount of loss of life? None.

They are getting better at saving their lives maybe?
Or what other positive aspect are you trying to spin? That the war is going well? Obviously it is a disaster.

Fighting a war for 5 years???

What happened to "mission accomplished"?
We aren't "fighting a war". We are OCCUPYING a foreign nation, with the help/support OF THAT nation.

The "war" ended years ago, but the "fighting" continues.

And quite frankly, maybe Bush should start to try to tout that in the press. "I haven't killed off as many Americans as others fighting a war"...

For some reason, I think the public will see through that thin veil rather quickly.

And perhaps the low number of americn fatalities has to do with advanced weapons technology that doesn't require that many soldiers getting their hands dirty.

"ooh look a terrorist.. hold it.. we'll call in a smart bomb.. KABOOOM.. aawriiiiight.. we GOT 'EM. Another notch in my rifle"

Besides idon't think it is fair to look at this war in terms of american fatalities only. COUNTLESS numbers of innocent iraqi civilians have died as a result of the american invasion.. Do they not matter when you think about the validity of the war?

It seems that american lives are just more worth and more important than iraqi lives no?

A human is a human, and each human life is as valuable as the next. Now since this war was started by the american invasion i think it only fair that Bush also be held responsible for the MINIMUM 60,000 deaths of innocent civilians as a direct result of american bombing.

No offense guys, i mean i understand why you think of your own first. But it is also not fair to forget those who AINT american.

An estimated 655,000 Iraqis have died since 2003 who might still be alive but for the US-led invasion, according to a survey by a US university.
BBC NEWS | Middle East | 'Huge rise' in Iraqi death tolls

Study: War blamed for 655,000 Iraqi deaths - CNN.com

Hello!

WHERE'S OSAMA or USAMA?

OH forget it, We got Saddam????????????
Thanks for the Memories


LOOKS LIKE A HOLOCAUST TO ME!

Each person who died in Iraq was connected to a family and to a community, just as we are here in the US. There are many who mourn each person. My heart goes out to them in their collective loss.

Human beings have great practice dividing themselves into nations, sects, what have you. We do not practice coming together as human beings so much. To those Americans who say we are somehow more valuable than people from other countries: this reasoning flies in the face of the Declaration of Independence where it states "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."