[Darkwolf377]

By the time we exited Vietnam, we had lost more than 50,000 of our soldiers.

I've read that we COULD have lost up toi 50,000 people in the WTC if the attack happened in the mid-afternoon.

If that happened, I'm thinking the 3000 we've lost in Iraq would not be considered such a high loss, and people would feel just fine about our involvment there.

Instead, we made so much about losing 3000 on 9-11, as we should, and here we've lost another 3000, through our own action.

[Alberta's Child]

If we had lost 50,000 people on 9/11, the president would have been impeached within a week unless he turned every Islamic capital in the Middle East into smoking ruins.

Actually, if you had told people on 9/12/01 that within the next 6 years the U.S. would lose 3,000+ troops in a war whose only purpose was to establish and prop up a dysfunctional government in Iraq -- under which Islam is enshrined as the official state religion, mind you -- I bet no more than a handful of them ever would have believed you.