I bet the troops tht are over there think it's bloody.
That's not the attitude of troops I've spoken with. All but one of the troops I've spoken with had lost a comrade during their tour, but none of them considered our casualties to be high. Why? These guys read. Anyone with a passing knowledge of history knows that we lost more men at Antietam in a day then we've lost in Iraq. Some of them probably know that at Cold Harbor the attacks on 3 June 1864 cost the Union 3,000 men.
These guys know what they're doing, and even the ones who don't like the war's course have no doubt about how casualties compare to other conflicts.