The way I look at it is that terrorists in about 1 hour took out about 3,000 American lives, and did hundreds of millions of dollars in economic terms. Our military forces have been in Iraq about 15-18 months with about 1,000 lives lost. Of those 1,000 lives, only about 5-600 are actual combat lives; the other is non-combat losses. Now, of course, I haven't lost a loved one there so my perspective would be different.
For wartime, that is pretty good stats. Wonder what the car crash fatality rate is. It's probably higher for the same time period.
My point is: the fatality rate in Iraq is overblown, when people are getting creamed here. IF Kerry becomes President we can add domestic terrorism stats to the fatality lists.