And I'm sure that US soldiers in Iraq appreciate your amusement.
I don't know where this moronic argument got started, but "not as many dead as [fill-in-the-blank]" reeks of typical talk-radio juvenilality, so I suspect that's its source.
That attitude is what amuses me the most.
The soldiers *think* we're winning in a cake-walk, compared to Iwo Jima, etc.
You think they'd rather hear that this is a disaster??? Try and put yourself in their shoes. You're in this every day, and I come up to them and say, "Good job, it's a tough fight but we're wining in a cake-walk." Do you think they're insulted?
No way.
Amusing, to say the least.