>>It must be heart-breaking to a US citizen to hear that, 3 years after the war, 100 US soldiers killed in Iraq in the last month. That's turning into a serious figure (and that's just this last month!) and has to smack of Vietnam. Similarly, there were, I think, c. 10 British squaddies killed in Afghanistan last month - and that smarts! UK losses seem to be about 1/10 of the US in this War on Terror but, given the force is only about 1/10 of the US force, then the losses are comparable.
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>>Strange I don't see any messages about this
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>As you probably know already, that is a mere trifle, compared to the losses suffered by the Iraqis - estimated at 2/3 of a million.

Yes. Admittedly the vast majority were killed in the war, I believe, but the vast majority of the rest have since been killed by their fellow countrymen, by the score and the dozen, and the hundred, by the same people who are killing the troops, not, in return, by the troops.