[Panzerfaust]

My point is that casualty comparisons would be more accurately done by comparing average monthly losses.

Then again, you are preaching to the choir, as anybody with a modicum of military history background knows that the Iraq war has had miraculously few casulaties relative to past conflicts. The folks against the war in Iraq have never heard of places like Unsan or the Chongchon river valley.

[syriacus]

you are preaching to the choir,

Not really.

Not many people know much about Korea, just as few Americans know about D-Day at Salerno. History books ignore the large numbers of deaths in places where we freed people and focus on deaths in places like Vietnam, where we gave up before freeing people.

I was a history major, and the number of deaths in Korea came as a big surprise to me

My Ueberliberal sister was quite astounded when I told her that 10 times as many troops died in Korea as in Iraq.

The word is spreading....