American-hater and Vietnam vet Sen. Chuck Hagel clearly doesn't know what he's talking about when he said "the fact is a crisp, sharp analysis of our policies is required. We didn't do that in Vietnam, and we saw 11 years of casualties mount to the point where we finally lost" yesterday. He should instead listen to Allawi who instead believes that "we are squeezing out the insurgency" and probably will also tell us that we're on the road to democracy.
Facts are just facts. All for a war of convenience that had nothing to do with the War on Terror though now provides a recruitment poster for terrorists everywhere.
- 135 foreign abductions
- 1032 US soldiers dead in Iraq
- 7125 US soldiers wounded
- Between 12,778 - 14,820 Iraqi dead
