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In the past, there have been modern divisions of the American army that have been nearly ruined, but nothing of the sort has transpired in Iraq. Here one thinks of the 6th Marine Division that did the most gruesome fighting on Okinawa and suffered over 8,000 killed or wounded in less than 90 days—nearly half its original combat strength attrited in a single battle. After 24 hours of fighting in the first day of the Bulge, the US 28th and 106th infantry divisions ceased to exist as effective combat units, with nearly half their soldiers killed, wounded, or captured. The 7th and 2nd infantry divisions that retreated from the Yalu River under attack by hundreds of thousands of Chinese communists were nearly decimated. To say that the American military is ruined after fighting in Iraq is preposterous by both present and past standards of combat losses.

But that is precisely what many liberals here in the DC area, since some general said so. It is preposterous on its face.

And, as I show in my book "America's Victories," these kinds of claims about the American military being "broken" pop up in EVERY SINGLE WAR we've had, save perhaps WW II. ALL of our enemies, in every war, thought we were pushovers. Santa Anna promised to be in Washington D.C. in a few weeks after he took over as dictator; the British were supremely confident they would beat us in 1812. There was HUGE opposition to the War of 1812, Mexican War, and Sp-Am War, too.

Precisely the point many are making now; if this is stressing our Army, what is going to happen when they see another Pusan or Bastonge.

On a related note, the VA is finding that the gals are not holding up well...but try to get those statistics. They're as tough to find out about as the current condition of Linda Bray.