More people have died in Iraq in the first 8 months of the invasion of
Iraq in than in the first three years of the Vietnam war.
Way to go dubya!!!
PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) - The U.S. death toll in Iraq (news - web
sites) has surpassed the number of American soldiers killed during the
first three years of the Vietnam War, the brutal Cold War conflict
that cast a shadow over U.S. affairs for more than a generation
A Reuters analysis of Defense Department statistics showed on Thursday
that the Vietnam War, which the Army says officially began on Dec. 11,
1961, produced a combined 392 fatal casualties from 1962 through 1964,
when American troop levels in Indochina stood at just over 17,000.
By comparison, a roadside bomb attack that killed a soldier in Baghdad
on Wednesday brought to 397 the tally of American dead in Iraq, where
U.S. forces number about 130,000 troops -- the same number reached in
Vietnam by October 1965[.... ]
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20031114/ts_nm/iraq_usa_vietnam_dc&cid=564&ncid=1473
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