Are you aware almost 20,000 Americans have been wounded in Iraq? And we are winning? Are we getting beat?

Question

Wounded In Action According to The DoD
Period Wounded
Jul-2006 518
Jun-2006 456
May-2006 442
Apr-2006 432
Mar-2006 498
Feb-2006 342
Jan-2006 287
Dec-2005 413
Nov-2005 400
Oct-2005 605
Sep-2005 545
Aug-2005 541
Jul-2005 477
Jun-2005 511
May-2005 575
Apr-2005 596
Mar-2005 371
Feb-2005 415
Jan-2005 498
Dec-2004 544
Nov-2004 1425
Oct-2004 648
Sep-2004 706
Aug-2004 895
Jul-2004 552
Jun-2004 589
May-2004 758
Apr-2004 1212
Mar-2004 324
Feb-2004 150
Jan-2004 189
Dec-2003 261
Nov-2003 336
Oct-2003 413
Sep-2003 247
Aug-2003 181
Jul-2003 226
Jun-2003 147
May-2003 55
Apr-2003 340
Mar-2003 203
Total 19323
Last update from the DoD: 15-Aug-06 ( Note: The USA Military is getting hurt day in and day out by the brave Insurgents. The USA will not win and this war will end up like Vietnam )

Answer 1

2600 Soldiers have died.

Iraq gets worse day by day.

We are losing.

Answer 2

You people will be the death of this country. We will lose the war on terror. It won't be because we aren't powerful enough. It won't be because we don't have brave soldiers that fight for a valiant cause. It will be because the majority of Americans are weak. They don't have the stomach to do what needs done. Our enemies do have the stomach for it.

They want to kill us. That's it. No negotiating is going to change that.

We will be involved in a regional war in the mideast by the end of the decade. Count on it. We will not be the ones that start it, and all you liberals will be screaming "how could this happen". It's quite easy actually. You helped cause it.

Wake up. Read a history book.

Answer 3

The question is what are you winning in Iraq?

Oil? It reached its highest prices since ever now after th occupation.

Fighting terrorists? Iraq now is full of terrorists and I can say crowded with terrorists.Every day 30-60 innocent Iraqies are killed in terrorist attacks."imagin if this number was american people killed instead will you just stay and watch?"

Ending Sadam's rule in Iraq? He didn't make any threat for USA and you didn't find any chemical or biological weapons "He used all those you gave to him against Iran" Beside he was making good control on the country, now a civil war is coming to the surface and your troops are just watching!

Just tell me one achievment for America from that unhuman war in Iraq. More than 50,000 Iraqi civilians were killed by american bombs during the invasion , wow what a victory!

Answer 4

We will not become Vietnam unless another 55,592 soldiers die in Iraq. Pennsylvania lost 3,377 by itself during Vietnam & the injuries were much higher. It is war, the military gets injuries.
You thought they would be in bubble wrap. As a mother of Army Lt., he knew the risk as did his wife & I.

Answer 5

we are not losing, we have already won the war. but what we are dealing with right now are terrorist organizations, and while a civil war is underway, we are trying to help our part of iraq with getting ready to fight their own civil war so that when we leave they will have a good chance of winning. As an American I support every decision Bush makes, he is a strong and great president who is trying to bring freedom and democracy to the whole world. The terrorist want to bring death and unequal rights, and that is why we must continue our campaign to bring democracy and freedom to the rest of the world. we will not allow terrorism to gain control. we are just in Iraq preparing our side of Iraq to fight their own civil war. preparations must be made, because if we leave now terrorist can regain control of all iraq. we must make our part as strong as possible to maintain a democratical government in Iraq. America stands for freedom, terrorist stands for death. that is why we must keep fighting to avoid terrorism from spreading.

Answer 6

Of course we're winning because we have field marshall von rumsfeld and his shiny new Adapt to Win strategy. Trust me 3-6 months and we'll have jeffersonian democracy up and running in Iraq. If not in 6 months the 6 months after that or the 6 months after that or the 6 months after that....

well you get the idea.

Answer 7

The remark I'm about to make isn't necessarily a sign that I'm particularly in favor of what is has gone on/is going on with Iraq, but I do think one point is worth considering (regardless of how someone feels about the war):

In a war the other side doesn't just sit back and say, "Sure. You can have whatever it is you're after." The other side fights back. People are killed and hurt on both sides. Stuff is destroyed on both sides. A war isn't as simple as a game in which the one who knocks down the most cans with a ball wins and in which it can sometimes (not always) be obvious who will win by looking at how many cans have been knocked down and how many are left.

Do the numbers of casualties show that there has been a high cost in waging this war? Yes. Do some people believe that the cost has had to be worth it because the cost of not waging it would have been far more grievous to the United States and/or the world? Some do. Are they correct? I, for one, don't know. I don't have the information that the government has.

Just a couple of thoughts, however, for anyone who believes that the number of casualties at this time is an indication that the U.S. won't win:

1) When one of my sons was a little boy he was a nice little kid who wasn't aggressive. There was a bully at school who would harrass him, and my son would tell me, "I could really, seriously hurt him if I wanted to, but I don't want to." My son could held back because his morality stopped him for wanting to seriously harm the bully; so in the meantime, he had to put up with a bunch of crap from this kid who wasn't seriously hurting my son either but who was making his life miserable in smallish ways on a daily basis. The problem eventually went away. Maybe the bully found someone else. The point is there are times when someone will put up with a whole bunch of nuisance (or worse) crap because they do not want to use all of the power and ability they have to cause damage that would seem to out-of-proportion to the situation. Just bear that in mind....

The other thing is this: During the American Civil War the Union Army wasn't in great shape for quite a while, and then President Lincoln decided to get himself a general who was known for not holding back and was known for being rougher than some others.
To the best of my understanding that's when things turned around for the North - and the rest is literally history.

One of my favorite lines in a song is from a song I don't like all that much, but its from The Gambler: "There'll be time enough for counting when the dealing's done." This war cannot be compared to other wars. Other wars were fought between governments. Other wars may have been a can of worms of their own variety. This one may be a can of worms, but it is a unique can of worms that can't be compared to past wars.

There is a part of me that thinks about that whole hell-hole over there in the Middle East and asks if any of it is worth even one American son's or daughter's life; and I can't say I'm all that sure I think it is. Someone has said that Iraq has had 6000 years to come up with a Thomas Jefferson of its own and get is own country squared away, and it hasn't apparently been able to come up with such a leader. There are, however, people who may know more than I do about the big picture; and so I have to assume there is a good chance they have seen good enough and serious enough reason to pay the price of the lives of American soldiers.

You may see the insurgents as "brave". I kind of see them as fighting because they feel cornered and feel as if their backs are against a wall - and so they have little choice but to fight if they honestly believe in what they are fighting for.

In answer to your question about winning or being beaten: The U.S. wanted Saddam Hussein out. He's out. They wanted him captured. He's captured. They want electoins. There were elections. So who won up to that point is obvious.

The way to tell if the U.S. is beaten is if and when the day comes when the U.S. is completely out of Iraq and if and when the insurgents are running the government in Iraq. Unless and until such a day comes the dealing isn't done yet.

When the U.S. went in there did it know that one way or another the cost might be very high? Of course it had to know that. People go into wars knowing the cost of war can be high, but they feel it is a cost they may have no choice but to pay. Paying a price and "being beaten" are two entirely different things. Meeting up with resistance and "being beaten" are two different things.

The U.S. has been willing to pay a price so that the people in Iraq can have some freedom. It has been willing to pay a price so that maybe the whole region over there can have some stability. It has been willing to pay a price so that maybe the world can be a more peaceful place in the long run. And it has been willing to pay an enormous price to keep the United States of America in peace and safety over the long haul. Well, pardon the U.S. for ever butting in over in such a {"wonderful, peace-loving" country where their own leader was torturing people for looking cross-eyed at someone.

Just as I suppose a certain group of people were pretty pleased with themselves after attacking Pearl Harbor, I suppose the insurgents are pretty pleased with themselves when they count how many people they have managed to harm. Of course, I am not at all implying that what happened with Pearl Harbor and its aftermath would ever happen again. I'm just pointing out that it is a good example of that line from the song, "They'll be time enough for counting when the dealing's done".

No. The U.S. is far from beaten at this point. Are we winning? Again, they'll be time enough for counting......"

Answer 8

You call them brave insurgents when they kill their own people, on the news today they killed young men standing in line waiting for a job, Ho boy is that brave, innocent people blowen up just waiting for a job, unarmed and with no warning, you call that brave they sound like cowards to me. they place their bombs and run like cockroaches and hide.

Answer 9

with stats like that anyone that says we are winning are buying into the government sponsored PR and propaganda to egg on and encourage bloodshed at the price of a dollar

not ususally short and sweet with my responses, but damn

Answer 10

Yes you are getting beaten. The simple reason is the country is going into cival war and the US army can't stop that.

Answer 11

That is the total wounded not killed. There is a HUGE difference. I would say were winning. We caught their psychopath of a leader and are helping them get their own government. You know what happens in war? People die or get wounded. There is no way around it.