[RWebb]

Mike - One thing not in your stats is the extremely high number of seriously maimed US personnel in this war. That comes about b/c of a "good" reason - the field medical support and med-evac now is superlative.

BUT, the total casualty count is much higher than it appears from the fatality count.

Also: "it is considered one of the worst events that has occurred in modern history. It is not."

- You mean b/c of fatalities. But there are other things than that making wars bad events or "good' events. Unless you are a Kurd, this war does not have a lot going for it.

The US has squandered a huge amount of good will we had in the world. And that is a very important component of so-called "soft power" (getting your way without threats or warfare).

If nothing else, the Iraq war has made it harder to justify an attack on Iran. Guess who we ought to attack...