How many people out there know that more Americans died in the preparation for D-Day than in Iraq?

Question

You can look it up. Not that I'm making light of the deaths in Iraq
just trying to put things in a historical perspective.

TO AMERICAN: I'M NOT DIGRACING THE SOLDIERS IN ANYWAY SHAPE OR FORM. JUST TRYING TO POINT OUT THE FACTS. JUST WONDERING HOW THOSE WHO TALK ABOUT IRAQ WOULD HAVE HANDLED THE RUN UP TO D-DAY.

Answer 1

My concern is that there are not that many who know what D-Day was, or that we have two National Cemeteries, owned by America and cared for by Americans at Normandy

Answer 2

Air Power, Air Power Air Power. The US has 12 Carrier Battle Groups. France has 2 Carriers. The Brits have 3 Invincible Class Carriers. The rest of the world has 0. The Russians have one that is docked and not serviceable. China has 1 or 2 under construction. I am not going to look up the Air Forces, but I think the US has 6000 total. Add NATO to that. Then you get to the Sub Force and all the other Naval Forces of NATO. A WWII type landing is never going to happen in today's military. Tolerance for loss's will vary based on each situation. It would likely be tolerated as a response. Neither the US or NATO as a whole would likely initiate an action. While we did invade Iraq in 2003.It was a continuance of the earlier conflict like it or not. Air Power Air Power Air Power

Answer 3

I did, but it's hard to understand the correlation you make. In order to have a historical perspective the wars have to be similar. There is nothing about the war in Iraq that matches the acknowledged righteousness of WW II.

Answer 4

Keep things in size perspective too. WWII was a many, many, many times bigger war than that little thing going on in Iraq right now.

Answer 5

Thanks for the perspective.

HERE IS THE LIST OF BRAVE REPUBLICANS WHO PROUDLY BELIEVE IN SENDING OTHERS TO DIE FOR BUSH'S LIES IN IRAQ:

* Dick Cheney: did not serve. Several deferments, the last by marriage.
* Dennis Hastert: did not serve.
* Tom Delay: did not serve.
* Roy Blunt: did not serve.
* Bill Frist: did not serve.
* Mitch McConnell: did not serve.
* Rick Santorum: did not serve.
* Trent Lott: did not serve.
* John Ashcroft: did not serve. Seven deferments to teach business.
* Jeb Bush: did not serve.
* Karl Rove: did not serve.
* Saxby Chambliss: did not serve. "Bad knee." The man who attacked> Max
Cleland's patriotism.
* Paul Wolfowitz: did not serve.
* Vin Weber: did not serve.
* Richard Perle: did not serve.
* Douglas Feith: did not serve.
* Eliot Abrams: did not serve.
* Richard Shelby: did not serve.
* Jon! Kyl: did not serve.
* Tim Hutchison: did not serve.
* Christopher Cox: did not serve.
* Newt Gingrich: did not serve.
* Don Rumsfeld: served in Navy (1954-57) as flight instructor.
* George W. Bush: failed to complete his six-year National Guard; got
assigned to Alabama so he could campaign for family friend running for U.S. Senate; failed to show up for required medical exam, disappeared from duty.
* Ronald Reagan: due to poor eyesight, served in a non-combat role making movies.
* B-1 Bob Dornan: Consciously enlisted after fighting was over in Korea.
* Phil Gramm: did not serve.
* Dana Rohrabacher: did not serve.
* John M. McHugh: did not serve.
* JC Watts: did not serve.
* Jack Kemp: did not serve. "Knee problem," although continued in NFL
for 8 years.
* Dan Quayle: Journalism unit of the Indiana National Guard.
* Rudy Giuliani: did not serve.
* George Pataki: did not serve.
* Spencer Abraham: did not serve.
* John Engler: did not serve.
* Lindsey Graham: National Guard lawyer.
* Arnold Schwarzenegger: AWOL from Austrian army base.
Pundits & Preachers
* Sean Hannity: did not serve.
* Rush Limbaugh: did not serve (4-F with an 'anal cyst.')
* Bill O'Reilly: did not serve.
* Michael Savage: did not serve.
* George Will: did not serve.
* Chris Matthews: did not serve.
* Paul Gigot: did not serve.
* Bill Bennett: did not serve.
* Pat Buchanan: did not serve.
* John Wayne: did not serve.
* Bill Kristol: did not serve.
* Kenneth Starr: did not serve.
* Antonin Scalia: did not serve.
* Clarence Thomas: did not serve.
* Ralph Reed: did not serve.
* Michael Medved: did not serve.
* Charlie Daniels: did not serve.

Answer 6

Different war, different level of intensity.

Answer 7

Why do you disgrace our soldiers that way?