Gee, we lost 3000 people in two hours on 9/11/01.
We have lost 2000 military heroes since the start of the latest Iraq war.
We went halfway around the world with no real support other than England to route a murderer who killed hundreds of thousands of his own and other country's people. That is hundreds of thousands of people. That's a lot bigger number than 2000. We did this in three months and then stuck around and occupied Iraq with 120,00 soldiers and lots of airforce and navy hardware in the wings.
We treated the terrorists (freedom fighters to you?) with kid gloves when we could have wiped the mat with them just so that we wouldn't seem too brutal and islamofascistic.
What other country could have taken the Taliban out of Afghanistan in a few months and installed a government with elections and what is looking like a stability they haven't seen in years?
Iraq has had elections, an electorate approved constitution, and elections in December for a real parliment. All this has been accomplished because of a president with some balls who recognizes evil for what it is. He recognizes that there must be sacrifice.
2000 brave heroes have been killed with a few thousand more wounded. I get so tired of Americans who look at these heros and say no more, bring them home, my p???y hurts. Its not worth it.
490,000 dead in WWII, 25,000 dead in Korea, 55,000 in Vietnam, 2000 dead in Iraq. That's the reality of being on the cutting edge of freedom when the rest of the world is either trying to take it away from their citizens through repression or socialism.
I know it hurts to see these brave men and women die or get maimed. Its necessary. Read "The History of Civilisation" and one realizes that man has always killed his fellow man and will continue to kill his fellow man in the future. Its not gonna stop.
As far as Iraq goes, once the elections are over in December and a parliament works, I think that you will see the American troop level drop. Its not going to drop that much because of Iran. I for one want a large American presence in the mideast.
I get tired of Americans that aren't willing to sacrifice. If there would have been some sacrifice and balls in the early '30's, Hitler wouldn't have come around. You can't treat evil with kid gloves. It has to be killed.
If you add up the numbers including how many Kuwaiti's and Iranians Saddam caused the deaths of.... the number goes well over a million deaths due to the Hussein Regime of terror.