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Originally posted by Not Bob
Fair point on the Iraq deaths.
That being said, I'd be willing to bet that the number of Allied soldiers killed in occupied Germany and Japan (after VE and VJ Days, respectively) by German/Japanese resistance fighters/insurgents was a lot less than we've lost in Iraq since the "cessation of hostilities" (or whatever it was called).
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A surrender versus a rout that leaves lots of angry, frustrated men with guns.
Mostly, the gist of this theme is that our attack was too successful. We should have strung it out and slaughtered more of them.
