If we have reach Baghdad in the next day or two, I believe more people will start supporting it. Many do look at it like Vietnam but they forget that we're driving at high speeds through the desert, not crawling on our belly's in the jungle.
In Afghanistan, it was after 21 days, and now it's already being said after 5?? Sheesh!!
I told my wife last night that there is no way we could do World War II today, not in today's world. The losses we had on D-Day, at the Battle of the Bulge or Iwo Jima. We lost thousands on D-Day. We lost thousands on Iwo. The TV and radio coverage today makes it impossible to fight without a damned camera in your face or behind your back. If D-Day were shown on TV today, tomorrow the entire country would have been yelling for FDR to pull them all off the beach and demanding that we give Europe to the Nazi's.
There is simply no way that you can fight a war and expect not to have people wounded or killed. That is the decision going in. Do we go in full bore or do we not. America today doesn't seem to understand the real world. It is too busy with TV, sports, movies, play things, cars, money, gambling, cheating on someone with another person's spouse, silly games, plain crap. Too many people in this country take far, far too much for granted. It is like, hey, I am an American. I get it for free. Well, it is not free. It cost. The payment is blood.
While I grieve for the losses, I expected it. I knew we could not fight a war with flash and bang and just think they would throw down their weapons. They know if we win, they die. They know if they want to surrender, Saddam will kill them. So, they fight to try to live. I expected it to be hard. Actually, if we could keep the danged aircraft from crashing and running into each other, and people could read a danged map, our actual losses would not be so bad.